Source: FHFA House Price IndexInflation protection: The only way to maintain your purchasing power and living standard is if your rents increase faster than inflation.

As I'm struggling to clean up and renovate hers, the guy in the apartment next door tells me he's moving to 'a better neighborhood' because someone broke into his car out front.

To clean it out was $3000.

Does it have a drinking water well that has clean drinkable water for human beings?

Also, since we did the clean out ourselves can I charge market prices for a clean out?

The way we look at it however is this sort of situation would be OK - but its a one time referral fee - any sort of arrangement with a long-term referral fee / borrower protection is reserved for true professional mortgage brokers - who like @Chris Seveney mentioned, would be doing more legwork on the deal vs. a simple and clean referral handoffvia CFPB on referral fees for business-purpose hard money loans:§ 1024.5 Coverage of RESPA.THIS VERSION IS THE CURRENT REGULATIONView all versions of this regulationSearch this regulationRegulation X(a) Applicability.

This approach can be a powerful tool in your real estate investing toolkit, offering opportunities to maximize returns while creating mutually beneficial deals for both you and the seller.Some books I recommend are:"Investing in Real Estate with Lease Options and Subject-to Deals" by Wendy Patton"Seller Financing and Real Estate Notes in the Dodd-Frank Era" by Dawn Rickabaugh"The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down" by Brandon Turner and David Greene

This new nickname worked great for a while until I realized the power of what I had just discovered. 

The challenge I am running into is that there is a power line right behind the garage.

You have found the location and the property type of your STR, you know the regulations for the area you are buying in, now it is time to find out what your buying power is and look at the numbers.