A LOT of distrress is leading to mergers and firings, in just the last few weeks, this happened: (Big credit to @NewsLambert)Lower to acquire Universal Lending retail and wholesale operations (11/1/23)Trustar Mortgage acquired by Archer Mortgage, LLC (11/1/23)People’s Bank of Commerce to exit residential mortgage lending (10/27/23)BMO Bank cutting 228 jobs in Northern California (10/25/23)Homestar Financial to wind down operations (10/25/23)City National Bank layoffs in Los Angeles total 71 (10/23/23)Hometown Lenders layoffs (10/12/23)First Savings Bank to lay off 135 mortgage workers (10/4/23)Wesley Mortgage absorbs competitor Colten Mortgage (10/4/23)Cenlar to lay off 85 in Ewing, NJ (10/2/23)Rithm Capital to acquire Computershare Mortgage Services Inc. (10/2/23)Wells Fargo cut 525 jobs in South Carolina (9/28/23)Better Mortgage lays off additional employees (9/22/23)The Graystone Company has acquired Direct Mortgage (9/13/23)Flyhomes to purchase certain assets of Home Sale Assured (9/13/23)Divvy Homes to cut 95 jobs in San Francisco (9/11/23)Farmers-Merchants Bank to sell three branches to focus on core mortgage business (9/11/23)It goes on…..The mortgage industry is in a starkly deep recession.And RIP refinances, unless you are holding an even higher interest rate loan (like a construction/bridge loan or hard money, or perhaps you just fixed your credit.

In fact, here's a video of Cody cutting a $600,000 check to a VestRight student who bird dogged a deal for him. 

For those looking more aggressively, the Pro subscription offers the full set of daily properties (10+ daily), plus usually another 30-40 in a (filterable by state and city) google sheet that didn't make the cut.

I imagine if I cut back a few hours at work I could easily qualify for real estate professional status. 

For those looking more aggressively, the Pro subscription offers the full set of daily properties (10+ daily), plus usually another 30-40 in a (filterable by state and city) google sheet that didn't make the cut.

Electricity being cut off way to often because of failing trees.

I have a few questions about handling this situation:- should I hire and pay for a plumber to go into their unit to cut open the ceiling and identify the source of the leak? 

Respectfully, it isn't always that cut and dry.

If you have an insurance claim with renters in the property and a homeowner policy I would expect the claim to be denied.The benefit of landlord insurance is that it will actually cover you, if you try to rent a house out with a typical homeowner policy you are simply not covered (even though you are paying premiums).Insurance is not where you want to go lowest bidder or look to cut corners - it is there to save your behind in the event of a major incident.

And again those are waste of time you dont want to buy these subto or any other way if there is not equity .. at least that was how we did it we want to step into the deal day one with equity so we had exits that did not include cutting a check if we needed to exit.