Did someone plant that seed?

I was at a church picnic and sat next to a older friend who planted the idea of me buying a duplex instead of a SFH.

Treat as crop insurance proceeds the crop disaster payments you receive from the federal government as the result of destruction or damage to crops, or the inability to plant crops, because of drought, flood, or any other natural disaster.You can request income tax withholding from crop disaster payments you receive from the federal government.

The issue is that banks have suffered catastrophic losses by letting folks borrow 90-100% on trumped up appraisals during the 2002-2007 period.

(I'm not trying to be heavy handed, I have suffered from doing this in the past)I'm speaking from experience.

I'd like to know how you can tell, when a tenant signs your lease, that that tenant won't lose their job or they won't suffer a heart attack.

We renovated the properties and the cove completely redoing the properties themselves and adding fences to cut off walkways and cut-throughs from other neighborhoods and apartments, planting trees, shrubs and flowers, painting the brick to bring vibrant colors and generally raised the "look" of this area from urban decay to urban renewal.

Reagan changed the student loan program, my building and many others almost immediately suffered a 50% decrease in occupancy.

With the VW plant moving here, the mid to higher end rentals are easy to fill.

Needless to say, my day time job was starting to suffer so I had to make a choice, either outsource and scale or go crazy.