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25 February 2019 | 32 replies
Used to be a nice area, now it’s filled with 300+ homeless people, 100+ tents, and broken down RVs, trash everywhere.
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15 February 2009 | 6 replies
I call the cops when I see homeless people skulking around.
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28 October 2010 | 50 replies
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson "If the American people knew tonight, exactly how the monetary and banking system worked, there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Abraham LincolnYou will not find a solution to this problem in the near future.
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10 September 2013 | 9 replies
In my area we have lots of homeless families living in hotels.
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11 December 2017 | 62 replies
Owner occupied are exempt, selling your own home. Less
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18 March 2014 | 6 replies
I know a lady that had housed women coming from abusive situations, or coming from being homeless, etc. and rents bed space to them.
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24 April 2014 | 12 replies
Hey Amber,Not from real estate experience, but from working for the fire department, we get a lot of homeless who break in to houses that are vacant, and sleep there.I think my next step would be to find the owner of the property, either from city hall, or online GIS maps.
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23 November 2014 | 6 replies
HUD's been out of the business of funding landlords with money for decades. that's one of the areas where the training comes in: influencing landlords and aspiring 'vendors' to learn how to form the state, county, city, community, private & corporate/institutional partnerships that lead to a HUD Sec. 8 grant award becoming available as a "program". if you for instance want to charge elderly tenants $ 2,400 a month for a two bedroom dwelling you can propose that criteria within your Sec. 8 grant proposal as a 'program' vendor. a lot of military veterans that are mildly disabled have allowances for that target range of rent with a live-in home care attendant, or home health aid assistant. most well known regional markets have 5+ year Sec. 8 waiting lists of very desirable tenants that you can cherry pick to your heart's content, featuring all manor of financial circumstance. they range from homeless to affluent with interim insolvency due to quite practical reasons. divorce is a very prominent scenario. a growing wave of real estate heirs are among those Sec. 8 waiting lists in more and more strategic regions. you may find that interacting with more recently credentialed occupancy certification specialists can better acquaint you with the actual yield(s) that would be available from the wide unrelated contributors to a potential Sec. 8, or locally subsidized program military bases also circulate routine information on what certain types of housing is worth to their ongoing efforts for key time intervals. their veteran G.
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26 June 2017 | 7 replies
I'm working on a parcel right now that has some old graves on it, is bordered on 3 sides by an old landfill, a sewage treatment plant, and a radioactive waste storage facility, and there are 2 homeless squatters who have been camping on it for 5 years. 2.)
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21 July 2015 | 41 replies
Someone can go from having a nice place to homeless within hours.