My brother and I have, for years, been looking to get into real estate investing. we grew up around a father who was a very successful businessman and invested in duplex's from the start. In fact we worked on ren...

Lady wanted my house and we took application and approved her in Nov/Dec.

Im currently a Lehigh University student in a Product Innovation course.

X has paid rent consistently since the beg of the lease and is currently paid up through Nov.I have one month's rent as a security deposit and according to my lease I can keep the deposit since he's breaking the terms of the signed lease.I feel best case scenario is I keep the deposit and have X move-out in Nov and try like heck to find a new tenant ASAP.Curious to know how fellow BP members would handle said situation?

To me this means a lender can approve a HomeReady mortgage as a multi-family. https://www.homepath.com/financing-special-offers.html“Innovative underwriting flexibilities,including income from a rental unit or boarder, can help buyers qualify

Frustrating.Obviously since then, some lenders have relaxed their policy/guidelines with respect to 4 property rule.Unfortunately, I wouldn't know who those lenders are -- as I've come up with more innovative techingues/strategies to fund additional properties.

Closed on Oct.28th 2015 and tenant moved in Nov. 5th.

I did one HML back in Nov 2013.

Much of the real innovation in this area is being led by consumer technology and the traditional players have been slow to adopt for many reasons.

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