So, when Trump changes to no tax on tips I feel inclined to change my rental income structure.50% reduction in rent.Previous 50% made up from a mandatory nontaxable tip. 

Hi everyone! I am looking at purchasing a vacation rental in Costa Rica and I have a couple of questions in regards to that.  Firstly, does anyone have an international lender that they would recommend?  Secondly, doe...

Big cities tend to have more regulations, more crime, more leftist-leaning policies that hurt investors and private property rights, etc.

I knew there were some HML lenders that did OO, but OP credit score “isn’t great” (which likely means it’s poor) and “technically don’t make much money” (which likely means he has little income).i think it is long shot any HML that does OO will take on this risk for what they can legally charge for OO loan.  

I also agree that there have been so many syndicators who's deals have dried up and they have resorted to teaching/mastermind as a source of income. 

@Alec Barnes we use Debt-To-Income Ratio (DTI) instead of income = 3x rent.Reason?

Policy is fine.

Hence the exodus from Mpls too outer ring suburbs where the exact opposite policy's have been held and sworn to be kept. 

How much income do you need, and how much do you want?

New occupants will be coming soon, but in a 3 family, i have set of excellent student tenants that renewed.That said, many landlord insurance policies have exclusions for students, so I am trying to gather info on updating a policy to consider the fact that the building is only going to be 33% student occupied.