She’s been living in Paris for a year now (Montmartre), and she’s just sick of renting and is talking about buying.

If you want to be succesful you really need to make actual disicions and you need to justify those decisions.If you make a dicision based on a huntch, because you think that is the way it should be done, or becaiuse some  person on BP swears by it, you are putting your success in the hands in a STRANGER that may or may not know a damn thing about what it means to be succesful, and even if they ARE succesful, they are not you, and not in your situation, you don't have their strengths, mindset, or skills.Following others is plain and simply stupid, without actual analysis, evaluation and proper decision making.So let me ask you this.Have you done your cost/deal calculations yet?

My brother is sick of renting and I want to help him buy his first home-- ultimately, we want to flip or rent after 1-3 yrs.

Im kinda sick of the "oh so your becoming a slumlord" or "why do you wanna fix toilets", etc.. comments from friends and various people when they hear im investing in rental properties. its like an automatic stigma from people who dont invest in real estate or anything else for that matter beside go to their 9-5 day job.Im sure you guys get them too, whats your response when you get these annoying labels?

For those wondering, the IRS has form 4506T (and plain 4506 as well) that you would have the tenant applicant complete to have the IRS provide the tax return info that was given to the IRS; and in conjunction with that, you request the tenant applicant to give you hard copies of the tax returns as well.

I'm sick of worrying whether or not an emergency is going to occur and I won't be able to afford it.

I know in the woods you can use Leaves to wipe, but you obviously didn't wipe yourself...The entire thing here is just wrong, sick and nasty.

It happens... people grow old, get sick and want to go home to spend their last days with family and friends.Honestly-- it shouldn't be a problem.

No hype, no get rich quick schemes, no BS, just the plain honest truth that if you build your empire by working slowly and carefully, you will eventually find yourself atop a nice mountain of wealth.The other book I finished recently that I really enjoyed was David Schumacher's Buy & Hold Real Estate Strategy: How To Secure Profits in Any Real Estate Market (John Wiley & Sons, New York, May 1992, March 1993 & March 1994 with Dr.

Or this map link here you can find if your structure is in the flood plain map.