If you save $100 per month, you'd need 35 months in order to get to a down payment amount which is almost 3 years.It sounds silly, but there are many people who would rather save for 6 months and buy a flat-screen TV than save 3 years to buy a house.Plus there are cell phone bills, Facebook games to buy, etc. that take away from the money people could be saving to buy a house.

BTW, the house was recently on TV news as the owner(s) were using it for an incubator house for pregnant, undocumented Asian women.

The auctions here are crazy, unlike they show on TV, here with that many going on simultaneously, 1st Tuesday of the month is a zoo.

Brian - She works at her leisure.

Reality TV has always been fake, that's the irony of it.

Although I would bump up your TV spending a lot.

When we were voting for marijuana legalization in Oregon, the local sheriff was the one on TV supporting the bill.This is a made up statement uneducated people use to scare each other.

Now, if you are talking creative real estate; If I was an attorney, or played one on late night TV, I'd probably find probate, bankruptcy, judgments & liens, divorces and 2nd mortgages to be my cup of tea.

Let me rephrase this....put the monkey back on her shoulders (so to speak) by telling her that her failure to pay her entire share of her rent will force you to address the issue of initiating the process of eviction because of this.Thus it becomes her choice if she wishes to continue this behavior because of a really stupid and childish situation.Don't you wish you come sometimes send tenants to bed without supper or TV?

I only provide wifi and a roku-enabled TV with a single netflix account across my 7 listings and never had a single complaint.