yes, you have to disclose. worried about lead paint is like worrying about global warming. it's there, deal with it.

Hi @Owen Franks, hope you have been doing well amidst the current global challenges!

I currently have 5 SFH in Memphis and looking around (globally) for more opportunities.

global companies are beginning to crack down on unnecessary expenses, like employee travel, and are taking longer to fill job openings, if they even fill them at all.

As far as I can tell, while Fannie, Freddie's, and HUD all have 'disclosure requirements' for realtors looking to purchase properties they do not globally restrict realtors as buyers.

Take a step back and look at what is happening:ï‚· Subprime meltdownï‚· Housing bubbleï‚· Foreclosure crisisï‚· Bear Stearns collapseï‚· Countrywide Mortgage rescueï‚· Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac bailoutï‚· Lehman going underï‚· Merrill Lynch takeoverï‚· Wamu in troubleï‚· Wachovia in troubleï‚· Citibank at riskï‚· Banks pool together $70 BILLION to shore up liquidityThe financial & banking system is being held together with bubble gum and bailing wire.

I've always been attracted to buying and selling things - cars, gum, whatever.

Unless you raise all tenants to a new market rent all at once (which would create a riot in the street) you'll have to deal with loss to lease as a component of your economic occupancy.Being 100% economically occupied for two years means that you have no vacancy, have collected every dollar of rent, and haven't raised rates globally (creating loss to lease with existing leases). 

@Damon ArmstrongReminds me of this:http://www.wrigley.com/global/about-us/ourfounder....Hopefully the marble business does not out strip real estate.. or maybe it will.Good luck with the mailers.

House prices are cheaper now because of the global crisis?