To address this, we verify the property owner per government records and use this information to vet imposters.Anything that seems suspicious will lead to us requesting an acceptable Letter of Explanation to address.Analyze IncomeMany landlords require a month of paystubs from applicants and just use these to calculate a monthly qualifying income.

Some of this is local mismanagement in city government with NYC real estate not following the trend of real estate in the rest of the country.

The difference is the one manufactured in the states allows you to pull a building permit, because the government has to be benefited more than you purchase it directly from China 

Because when your properties pass to your kin, they get a step-up in basis, effectively making a lifetime worth of gains invisible to the US Government.

The Boomer Business Bureau isn't a credible source of information.Loopnet and Crexi are the industry standard consumer-facing sources for CRE.

ServiceLink Auction is a credible platform for purchasing properties through auction.

I finally received a demand letter from a "nonprofit attorney" representing the tenant, claiming that the tenant was living in uninhabitable conditions—typical for a non-paying tenant, I guess—and now she wants to "renegotiate" the rent and keep living in the same space.She has been filing complaints with various government departments, but all the cases were minor and have been closed.

@John Williams politicians at all levels of government are taking away landlord property rights to protect slum-tenants.We'll soon be like Ontario, Canada where they can't charge application fees or security deposits and it takes 12 months to evict a tenant.Unfortunately, landlords are too cheap to make political donations to stop the madness:(

It isn't a ton of extra work for us to manage an IRA vs regular investor, but eliminating government-mandated paperwork (that adds no value) is a win.

It helps you have more credibility than people who might just be tire kickers.