All Forum Posts by: Julie Garner

I also love that you "recommend me". Love seeing any entrepreneur hit a home run.

Oh, please. It's not about the tenant's disability.  It's about the majority of "emotional support" animals being pets and a renter trying to get around a no-pets rule or avoid a pet deposit.  It's about people who move into a duplex/fourplex/etc with the understanding that they won't have dogs around them only to find that they step in dog crap every time they come out of doors.  It's about people with small children renting next to someone with three pitbulls as "emotional support animals."

It's usually a SCAM.  You know it, I know it.  All pets provide emotional support.  Legitimate service animals are considered medical devices and are available for those with true disabilities. For those few who actually NEED them, it would be much better all around if they got a service animal.

I notice that even YOU refer to them as a "pet."  There is much more wear and tear on a unit and its landscaping from an animal.

Thanks.  I don't usually file until April ;-) and will talk to my accountant.  

Thank you. Dave.  Looks like in order to be compliant, I will be eating the capital gains :-(.

Hoping this is in the right place.

Bought a house ten+ years ago, lived in it ~3 years, rented to the worst sort of people whom I had to evict, rented to my parents a couple of years, once I had a decent nest egg, no rent was charged.   Mother is now my dependent (father deceased) and need to move her near me.  I think I'll financially do very well selling this house rather than renting and should net about $325k.  My question is: Can I avoid capital gains on that if I buy her another house?  Would I have to show rent to do so?  I'm in a horribly high tax bracket and trying to figure out the best way to finagle this.

If I'm a buyer, I'm wondering where the $130k difference from 6 weeks ago went. Your write-up is not very good, imo. Highlight what you've done to the house since purchasing it. It's "like" a close community? Like, but not it. Also, if I was buying, I'd feel that I might end up an "outsider." "Might" allow you to build an ADU. How much time would it take to head down to the permitting office and find out if they indeed could build an ADU? "Might" seems like you know they probably wouldn't, but want to CYA. "...will be..." a perfect commuter home. No, it IS a perfect commuter home situated close to [Bart/ferry] within easy commute to [which counties are your best chance to market?]

Zillow allows you a lot of space for description.  You used almost none.  Okay, new appliances.  What else? Where did the money go?  The photos are good, but why none of bathroom #2?  The drone shot is good, but what's up with the back half of the garage roof?  Leaks?  That's a low-maintenance yard for lower water bills, it's near a park and elementary school [how are the school's ratings?].  I think whomever wrote up your description did a very amateurish job.  

Good people don't steal.

If it was 10 years ago and there's nothing else, rarely would that be held against anyone.  But if it's recent, actions have consequences. 

 This is the most concerning part.  He's trying to bully you -- already, before even moving in.  Red flag.  I'd raise the credit score criterion.

Service dogs are considered medical devices, not animals.  It's not a pet.  But I would definitely find another legitimate reason to reject this applicant.

If you're close to the Naperville train stations and want to go the room renting route, see if the Amtrak Chicago hub will put up a notice for you.  A lot of the train workers are gone most of the month on assignments.  The bonus is that they've already been screened for drug use, have union jobs that are almost impossible to lose, and they're used to working with each other.

According to their news release, they're investing in NEW housing construction, multifamily properties and apartments. 

Combined, I think I read their total is about 4% of the housing market.  The proposed law is, as a poster stated above, government overreach.  We need fewer laws, not more.