Pretty crazy advice, but part of his thing is to be controversial I guess.

The celebrity I think bought legitimacy, completely undeserved as it turns out, and I was taken in by the allure of passive income via real estate investing.

That’s an achievement we should all celebrate.

Now I feel like I know a celebrity.

@Mike Dymski spelled out standard underwriting requirements well here for recourse debt.I had 3 of these and am celebrating with each  payoff.  

I've celebrated a couple payoff success stories here on BP.

I'm not sure if there are any celebrity owned duplexes in Raleigh but I will keep an eye out!

To celebrate my husband and I went to see a movie that gives me nightmares to this day...PACIFIC HEIGHTS.Fast forward to a few years ago (we are talking a 25 year span here) and I have another trying to pull this same stuff...but Im on to the game now. 

But if they fail to adequately screen them and rent to one who robs or hurts a neighbor, they could be sued by the victim for negligence.No doubt many will see no option but to raise rents to indirectly exclude criminals from their rentals, which will just end up hurting everybody who rents housing — including innocent, law-abiding tenants.Obama’s new rule makes it easier for HUD to resettle urban minorities into affordable housing in the suburbs, as part of a controversial regulation it finalized last year — Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing — which threatens to cut off funding to local municipalities that refuse to lift zoning restrictions on low-income housing.The federal mandate — whose goal is racially balancing the nation, ZIP code by ZIP code — also threatens to import violent crime into the suburbs, while lowering property values and negatively impacting local schools.As kitchen table issues go, these are major developments.

It was close to Christmas when my property manager called me and gave me the bad news: one of the tenants was celebrating his son's birthday and invited the boy's uncle to the party.