Staging your house well can help you attract more attention from buyers, which ultimately helps it sell faster and maybe for a higher price than an unstaged home (see visual):What Are My Staging Options?

Tenant occupied properties can be attractive to investors if cash flowing...no one wants to buy someone else's problem. 

When landlords struggle to protect private property rights, they may either leave the market entirely or pass the increased costs on to tenants.

I think it's going to be location specific for sure; where I am very few people hang out in the house all day long as they are usually busy hitting the parks and attractions. 

With no comps in the area for new construction and the highest rehab selling for 205k, building enough at the onset, 4-6 new construction homes, may be the only way to start a neighborhood turn.The city is looking to increase density in the area and add anchor points in near the area to cater to future investment. 

It has gotten increasingly frustrating to deal with inadequacies and complaints from my tenants as far as payment processing.

I felt confident that this guy was dependable and wanted to pour gas on the fire.I increased the number of hours Marilyn was working and ordered another batch of direct mail, all at my sole cost.

If the market value mentioned above is accurate and the “initial” loan balance hasn’t increased by rehab funding, I wrote above that the proceeds are just a couple million after closing costs and commissions.

The problem is, that's not proper accounting because a credit card is a liability, and doing this workaround will reduce your assets rather than increase your liabilities, which totally messes up your balance sheet and debt-to-income ratios.  

They were fine with my score (about 740), but have issue with the percentage of personal credit I am utilizing, so that discussion also petered out.Apparently, I have a lending profile right now, that is not attractive to mainstream lending programs.Any advice?