Rents will go up and your biggest mistake was to buy a nice house in a desirable neighborhood.The real threat is buying in the hood, leveraged up to the gills, maybe even with hard money, tenants are bleeding you dry, while you are writing checks to attorneys and contractors.Milwaukee is getting a lot of attention lately: cash flow is still better than most places and appreciation is stable at 5-8%.

@Cody M.I would add a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment as a contingency to any offers on properties more susceptible to environmental issues (dry cleaners, gas stations, auto repair garages, etc.)

The basement is dry as hell, and it's nicely decorated.QUESTION:  What types of financing, financial assistance and tax benefits does one get from being a registered landmark in a historical district? 

Well, on that note, I gotta go wash my hair, or something..... 

Compared to  CA AZ NV OR WA which is very cut and dry..

It wasn't the messiest thing I've seen, but still required clean up on my end which the clients weren't happy about at all.The third client is a self employed hair dresser and she compained of poor communication, inability to understand what they wanted form her and complete confusion over their payroll directions.For the price paid, I'd say the results were mediocre at best.

He would try and sell that original loan to investors so they could also fund the draws but he got caught in interest rate spikes and left a lot of people high and dry as he was writing loans at lower rates and when rates spiked the loans were worth a lot less.

No list no set of characteristics and predict motivation because motivation is based on emotion, NOT DATA.If you were a lion in the dry savannah of Africa and you wanted food.

A big chunk of the housing shortage goes back to the Crash of '07 / '08 when, according to the economists of the day, 80% of builders and developers went bankrupt once the supply of new mortgage lending dried up.A good solution - though not the only one, certainly - would be to get home building back on track.

My father studied to become a plumber and my mother worked in a dry cleaning shop.