The episodes I struggle on there are the interviews that seem to be either someone the host wants on, or that they were on their show and it’s a reciprocal situation to build an audience.

Hey Alex, Ya both of the duplexes I own are in Beverly, both house hacking situations and LTRs.

If you're a single mom with student loans, a car payment, and living paycheck-to-paycheck, then $20,000 would be devastating and a reserve is critical.

You have provided a variety of situations where doing a cost segregation study would be useful.  

What I do in a situation like that, is I try to figure out what I think they really would like to ask if they had enough knowledge to ask a good question.And then I answer the question I think they would ask if they knew more about this business vs. the original question. 

Just because you get a loan approval does not always mean you should move forward with it.

I was just thinking today there was all this excitement about VA loan assumptions there for a while when interest rates started going up. 

I just re-read and realized you're talking about getting loans for lien position 2, is that correct?

We generally advise our clients to go ahead and pay the recapture rates if death is the alternative.The good news about recapture - the deductions are a deferred tax liability to you, and an interest free loan from the government.

As a community I think we should focus on helping people who have had their housing situation negatively impacted recover as quickly as possible.