The mortgage company gets paid off first, then in a traditional sale, the rest minus agent fees and utilities and closing costs goes to the seller.

I've only ever purchased homes as primaries, one being rented out currently to an insurance company and the other is my current primary.

There are multiple billion dollar companies dumping money into the city, such as Intel, Google, Honda, and Amazon.

If you had a mold remediation company do all the work and mitigation, send the threatening party the reports and clearance.

I have seen this work in high priced markets like San Jose Ca.. where the property owner is a very wealthy business person with no time for rentals and the person they sublet to is close t them either friend or bizz associate and will work the property to make  the delta as the owner just does not want to mess with day to day and there is extreme trust.The other thing I have done personally is with the insurance companies ..

@Don Konipol  Don talk about a book on this subject by I think its Jimmy Napier which was written years ago But Don says its the bible I personally have not read it As I got my education working for a HML in Oakland CA and got on the job training as it where .He was a legend and I was very fortunate to find my way to his company and then eventually end up running it.

As an out of town owner, one benefit of Madison is that we do have a good supply of property management companies to consider. 

While you may be able to measure energy to some precision that you are satisfied with close to the point of delivery - what you will have a very tough time accounting for how those losses are split amongst your units.

There are a lot of shiny internet companies touting their HELOC, but you will do better with a local bank every time.

The longer the maturity rate of the bond, the higher the yield is to compensate an investor for the additional risk they are taking on with a longer dated bond.Stocks that pay divideneds....insurance companies have a lower yield than telecom stocks as a reflection that telecoms are higher risk than insurance companies.In the efficient market hypothesis, if markets are efficient then the yields should be reflective of the risk.