When we prepared the lease agreement, we were very explicit and essentially wrote it as a triple net.

It’s not every day that accusations of rent manipulation make headlines, and I wanted to understand how this impacts the millions of Americans struggling with housing costs.

While we faced minor delays with contractor scheduling, strong project management minimized impact.

You’re on the right track—build awareness of costs where it directly impacts their role, but don’t overcomplicate the program with factors they can’t control.

Finally the pro formas that they provide are absurdly basic and neglect at least 25% expenses, so are essentially useless. 

my condolences on your recent lost.there are a few ways you can do this, as mentioned above you can take a heloc on your primary residence which will give you a second mortgage, first mortgage payment wont be impacted. you can do cash out refinance which will give you one mortgage and payment. it will pay the old mortgage and give you money in your pocket to pay for the rehab.or you can do a renovation refinance which is similar to cash out refinance but we would contractor involved  as part of the refinancing and they are paid through the loan

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Two flats are essentially just houses.... they trade like houses and there is a lot of emotion involved.

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