Your job as an investor is to reverse engineer the opportunity in order to intelligently evaluate risk/reward.As a newbie investor, are you able to do this?

@KathyFettke You are extremely intelligent, and you have opened my eyes to other opportunities that I didn't even know existed!

(I've seen sellers leave out the property taxes, I think to artificially boost the cap rate).Utilities?

He swears it’s unrelated and he’s an intelligent person and an expert in nuclear cleanups.

My intelligence or lack there of, like countless individuals, is be exploited by third party student loan lenders.

I don't have the documents to determine exactly what the situation is, but looking to have an intelligent conversation with the seller.

If you moved because of work, military assignment, work in the intelligence industry, health reasons, or another IRS-approved 'unforeseen circumstance', you may be eligible for a pro-rate exemption.https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-partia...https://www.irs.gov/publications/p523#en_US_2018_p...

I was recently at the Intelligent Investors Real Estate Conference here in Los Angeles, and a syndicator told me that during the last financial crisis national multifamily defaults were <5% .  

No one likes the idea that their business or profits should be artificially controlled.

This creates incentives for the reverse mortgage lender to take title to the property rather than agreeing to a short sale because the insurance won't kick in if the lender agrees to that sale.What's even worse is that many reverse mortgage lenders artificially inflated the values of the properties that they accepted into reverse mortgage programs.