We definitely dream about it often enough but her nose is to the grind stone with work and raising our child making it difficult for her to raise her eyes up and look down the road a bit.

Luckily for me I do have commercial loans on both properties and not govt loans (i.e. fannie/freddie, etc) so there is no requirement for the fema loans as mentioned above.At the very least, its worth looking into if you have some properties in a flood plain and are paying thru the proverbial nose for a policy that likely will never be applied.

Chew on some raw meat and watch a Rambo movie before you call any attorney that sticks his nose in like this, it just helps you get in the right frame of mind, LOL To me, it was almost sport mess with these guys!

Until the city comes up with a REASONABLE solution to the inspection issue most will choose to thumb their noses at the requirement.

I had all these Southern CA borrowers who had bought turn key in the mid west they were failing left and right and because we were HML who did not report to fico they would just stick their nose up at us... but I had their PG's so I thumbed them right back with a 1099 C  you should have heard them squealing..Hey you cant do this..

That can get messy if it happens.Oftentimes sketchy applicants "wave a fistful money" under the nose of landlord, hoping they will not do their due diligence and overlook something untoward in their background.I'm not saying this is the case here, but I would (a) not take the advance payment, and (b) I would vet this applicant at least as thoroughly as all the others.Lastly, in some jurisdictions (like the state of NY, for instance) it is actually prohibited for landlords to take any deposits/advances amounting to more than one month's rent.

I actually don't feel I'm sacrificing but it's funny to see/hear our friends turn their noses up at being landlords and living in a multi.

They'll have their nose to your local market. $400K is a reasonable limit though.

Is it just me or did mobile home appraisals take a huge nose dive from 2007 - 2008 in Texas?

A good consultant will keep your nose to the grindstone and put your feet to the fire.