So great that this forum has such an amazing international influence!

More risk in terms of collections and damage by tenants or other external influences (i.e. thieves).

And that can be influenced by so many other things than just risk. tldr; cap rates dont always measure risk. look it up

If these were easy, everyone would be snatching these up, just think about it :)  Finally, just knowing and being apart of hundreds of 203k transactions for our private client construction business, this is not a forgiving loan and encountering large challenges with the purchase, may influence your opinion of the simplicity of the 203k, if you intend on using a 203k, perhaps seek something that requires more work and remove yourself from this short sale.

This is the case regardless of whether you take title individually or via a corporate entity.The County Fiscal Office periodically re-assesses valuations for tax purposes.

Most call this your sphere of influence.

There are some other influences.

Not a lawyer or anything, so I'm sure someone else can explain more on differences if you have a chance of life event or something, but this is is straight from the 92900B that you will sign in an FHA purchase loan:"Do not falsely certify that a property will be used for your primary residence when you are actually going to use it as a rental property""Penalties for Loan Fraud: Federal laws provide severe penalties for fraud, misrepresentation, or conspiracy to influence wrongly the issuance of mortgage insurance by HUD.

If the deal is for $140k all cash (and you get $40k right back), you're probably OK. but any half-wit loan officer the tenant uses will see right through what you did, which is to artificially bump up the market history of the property to influence the appraisal and mortgage size the tenant is applying for.

Peter Linneman has been a critical influence in driving the professionalization of real estate capital markets and the commercial real estate industry.