My insurance provider has given me a warning that this will change my insurance from a standard dwelling/fire to a surplus line, specific to undergrad tenants. 

Then the rest of the standard stuff can follow. 

As a Stessa Pro member, I rely heavily on its features to manage my properties, and while sending over the tax package reports works well (since the Income Statement and Balance Sheet are standard for most accountants), my bigger challenge has been finding a real estate-savvy CPA who doesn’t charge more than my annual cash flow for their services!

I'm looking to reduce the sound between two levels of a townhome, as I rent them separately, but they were built with standard drywall on the ceiling.

I have just bought my neighbors house and am renting out our old house next door. I’ve tried searching for people who have been neighbors to their tenant but haven’t seen anything yet.If you have experience in this I’...

@Jared W SmithWith all due respect to Architects; setting a standard percentage of cost based on construction cost is not good pricing for customers.

google All inclusive Deed of Trust state of CA.. that will give you a really good description and if you can find the actual deed of trust to read its a great wrap document .. in practice   you have a current 100K loan at 8%  you sell by owner and take a 125k note at 9%  the 125k wraps the 100k.. you continue to pay on the 100k the while the new owner is paying on the 125k  payment lets say on the 100k are 1k a month the new payment is 1.2k a month you make the 200.00 delta..

If some funds are available, is the standard 25% down 30 yr fixed loan optimal or would you recommend different financing?

Is this standard? 

I'm not saying that the increases have to be as drastic as the example I shared but you should be in the practice of increases to keep up with costs.