The body was un-related to the fire and the poor fellow had been there for nearly five years - corner says he died in June 2010 (suicide was the cause put forward) and somehow none of the tenants smelled the decomposing body during that first summer.I promptly called the owner and offered to buy the property - hoping it was sufficiently damaged to warrant a teardown.  

I had a suicide in one of the homes I bought at court house steps.. guy just would not move and when we had to evict.. ( let him live there for 8 months for free you know me and how tough I am as a landlord :).. the guy went in the back yard and shot himself.we were able to list and sell.. but its because we already owned it.

My father was EB's attorney over 9 years ago and had committed suicide in 2012, noting Jerry and Shaun Cohen as well as the Ponzi scheme in his suicide notes.

I'm 19 and about to buy my first 2-4 unit apartment but haven't yet, however if I could of went back a few years with everything I've learned now just make sure you're always learning, reading, etc, don't spend your money on stupid things like cars and clothes, if you get a job and keep saving you should have money for a 5% down payment on a property by 18 or so, if you're going to college you can buy a 2-4 unit (duplex-4 plex) or a cheap house and rent out the other rooms, that can go in general too not just with college, and don't buy a brand new car, get at least 3 years old because a car loses 40 percent of its value over those years, you can get a very low mileage older car if you hunt for it, new cars are financial suicide to young people, ideally don't spend more than 10% of your income a vehicle per year, that may be hard depending on what you do, and invest every penny you can while maintaining a safety net (at least a couple thousand dollars to cover expenses, etc) that way you don't have to pay abhorrent credit card interest rates.etc

Marketing strategies, employee requirements, compliance costs/requirements, software costs, training/education, insurance requirements, etc all are not within any model that you would use one another industry model...it is it's own animal, Without explicit insider knowledge of the escrow profession, it is usually a suicide mission to start up an escrow operation.

Toll roads to downtown, so traffic (while still sucking pretty badly) isn't suicide-inducing.There's lots of growth down south (288, NASA area) but, again, not all that scenic.

How are those Northrop Stealth Bomber contracts coming along?

More than likely financial suicide IMO, having tried it as an expereinced REI'er.An "out of the box" option for the OP ... if you really need cash AND you don't want the tax bite, would it be possible to sell your primary (assuming you've lived there 2+ years) and move into the rental?

This is a recipe for suicide.  

Northrup just won multi billion dollar next gen steal bomber contract; will be assembled in East Palmdale and likely test flights at Edwards AFB just north.