We pulled every trick in the book, and the odor remains.Another issue is that when tenants violate one rule, they tend to violate more.

Some of them even walk off the job, even after they pull permits and are technically responsible for the work.  

To find out the amount of the subordinate lien through the NSP program, you’ll want to pull the title report for the property.

Is it hard to pull that type of cash out of a property?

Most investors on this forum are obtuse to the complicated nature of macroeconomics, cause and effect.

Naturally you need to charge them for any damage to incldue smoke damange 

They don't allow auto payments or automatically add late fees, and tenants would have the option to pull their payment back, which is not ideal.

Simply gifting him half the property now wouldn’t immediately allow him to claim the exclusion without fulfilling this residency requirement, I don't believe.One thought would be to use a HELOC to pull just enough equity out of the current home and use it to buy a smaller home, or at least the down payment.

Right now I'm considering refinance options to pull out some equity.

Most others find seller-financed deals through pulling data on property owners in the areas they want to buy that have a lot of equity in their homes.