“Kim Lisa Taylor is a nationally recognized real estate securities attorney, speaker and author of the No. 1 Amazon best selling book “How to Legally Raise Private Money" and her newest publication, "How to Raise Capital for Real Estate Legally."

I'm curious to hear more about how you went about securing that and at what point in your investment journey you first did so. 

They clearly don't know the law and need to spend 45 days figuring out how to handle a security deposit.

Instead, make sure you’re securing the best deal possible.

Those of us with more experience in the industry would once again have the opportunity to build direct connections with homeowners and secure better deals.

Then you invest that money in a super secure, no risk note with an operator who is already underwater on their original note.

OpenAI, a leader in artificial intelligence, has leased the entire 315,000-square-foot building at 550 Terry A Francois Blvd. in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. This marks the city’s largest office deal of 2...

The disparity is even more alarming in Worcester, where median income has grown by 19.7 percent, while mortgage payments have surged a staggering 82.9 percent.It’s no surprise that home prices in Worcester have risen, but I didn’t realize the jump was so dramatic.What I’m seeing on the ground is that many of the buyers for multifamily homes (multis) in Worcester are coming from the east—places like Greater Boston.

Your options in this case are to:Decline their application.Accept them without references and take the risk, assuming everything else about them is stellar.Require a co-signer.Require an additional security deposit if that is allowed in your specific state.The option many landlords choose is No. 2: Accept them without references, asking for an additional security deposit.

Would you average the credit scores, or take the highest as long as the low one does not have anything alarming in the details?