The rental application has an area where the prospective tenant signs that authorizes any previous or current employer or landlord to answer questions about the applicant.  

Anyone on here going to the chicago housing authority conference this Saturday?  

On Amazon, some good tax authors are Diane Kennedy, Mark Kohler, Sandy Botkin, Stephen Fishman, Tom Wheelright.

No one should buy here without truly understanding the implications as the fine is $1500 per month until complied with,The law takes effect Sept 15 but I have it on good authority the clock will be delayed until Jan 1.

However, although the fix n flippers like to call themselves real estate investors, they are actually in the real estate business, they are not investing in real estate.Real estate seems to be the one field where a large number of people are willing to believe that with just superficial knowledge, the purchase of a guru's mentorship program, the reading of a couple of books by authors who were NEVER successful in anything except selling books about how successful they were, that they will be able to achieve success as a real estate investor.  

I just read an article by Forbes where the author - Brad Thomas - mentioned something regarding cap rates that has me confused.Quote - "As a REIT analyst, I use cap rates on a daily basis for comparing the values of various buildings that are bought and sold.

@Heidi M.Not all agents are authorized to put bids in on HUD properties- perhaps the 2 agents that you spoke to were not registered.

I agree - MHU is the authority for parks.

I was able to make it back to the west coast but for you that are there please heave the warnings of the authorities and take refuge.

You are never too old to get involved in real estate, and being young will give you a distinct advantage for the long run.If you have only read Robert Kiyosaki's initial book, I recommend you look at the rest of his books and books by other authors in the Rich Dad series of books.