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Rich Weese Are you betting over/under on rental rates in 2012???
17 October 2011 | 12 replies
...I would imagine that many BP landlords are getting Section 8 rent, where the voucher amount and the allowances for utilties by the housing authority end up setting the rent received by the landlord.For your existing tenants, you could probably get away with the bigger increases - if their income was keeping up and other rental units in the area also went up similarly.
Hal Cranmer Finding Contract for Deed Buyers
10 November 2011 | 10 replies
There are other low income programs available and HUD has a lease-option program but it may be on a back burner now, but that has to go through your local Public Housing Authority or Section 8 Administrator.Do not use Sec 8 on your own to do any installment deals!
C & J Metzger Okay BP Nation What are your TOP 5 favorite books on REI?
27 February 2013 | 12 replies
The Big Book of Real Estate, by Robert Kyosaki and contributing authors.
Alex B Agent doesn't want to accept a back up offer on a SS
21 October 2011 | 8 replies
Furthermore, trying to get your offer to the lender wont work, and even if it did, they dont have the authority to sell a house that doesnt belong to them.
Chris Clothier Biggest Mistake for Real Estate Online Marketing
19 February 2012 | 16 replies
Then you have a link pointing it back to your site or your author's box.
David Beard Private Lending for Buy & Hold
10 November 2011 | 31 replies
Financing deals through several investors is basically a banking operation and if you have an investor who squeaks really loud you can have the state banking authority knocking on your door.What I'm saying is that there is no 100% safe way that avoids all banking and security issues regardless of what an attorney might tell you, after all, the attorney has an on going opportunity representing you as issues arise.The way to put such a lender group together is to obtain contractual loan agreements with your investors, as a loan committment, to make future loans available within a short period of time.Usually obtaing short term financing for long term obligations is a good formula for failure.
Elio Mariani Holding property in LLC/Corp
25 November 2011 | 27 replies
The court of appeals recognized the status of the LLC as a separate legal entity and found that the public nuisance offense, placed in its ancient common law context, only authorizes prosecution of the person or entity that holds actual title to the property on which a nuisance continues.
Casey Spivey How to increase rent on Section 8 tenants in a new property.
1 November 2011 | 1 reply
The local housing authority is telling me that the tenants are not eligible for rent increases until their recertification is due.
Justin Silverio LLC w/ S Corp Election vs. C Corp w/ S Corp Election
21 November 2011 | 18 replies
Shareholders have no authority to liquidate a corporation.
Dan Favor Trying to bail out a friend
9 November 2011 | 5 replies
"they owe the bank $295,000"NO according to YOU she is on title but not the mortgage.If that is true she owes NOTHING to the bank.She just has a partial ownership by title with a property that is underwater in value.Even if it forecloses she can milk some more months as a "tenant at will" before the bank can get her out.Usually they will offer "cash for keys" for her to move.This time of year with court delays for evictions it would most likely take the bank awhile to get her out.She could always try to get the husband to sign an "authorization to release" from giving her the authority to speak about the loan to her.With an underwater house most owners/tenants just care about the mortgage payment.Example house was worth 200k but now worth 130k.Mortgage payment is currently 1,600 but owner/tenant wants payment of 1,100.The bank might readjust the loan payments rather than foreclose and take a big loss.It depends on what type of loan it is and who owns it and workout options.If you bought it for cash at foreclosure then she could stay as a tenant and you have her sign a lease and she rents from you.The details will be based on a state by state basis with time lines and risks involved.She could try to buy the note at a discount or get an investor to try to purchase it on a short sale and rent to her etc.The confusing part of your statement is you said she had 150,000 cash but yet recently filed bankruptcy.Are your sure the husband didn't file bankruptcy and she received the money from the proceedings??