On what planet does a house have to have a window screen to be considered habitable?

any private lender can offer 50% LTV with 6% interest rate.if you want 2% for the investment rental you need to be citizen :) if the gov. opened the door for everybody in the planet to invest with 2% then there will be more housing price increase.

Toxic black mold is the worst.

Originally posted by @Jack Orthman:You have to tell yourself that owning rental properties is a business like a liquor store, gas station, or whatever and every business has inherent problems, but the beautiful thing about real estate is once you get organized the money constantly pours in while you are sleeping or even on another side of the planet and real estate takes the least amount of maintenance compared to other businesses.

I don't understand why any person on this planet would torture their self with a single family home.Guessing the OP's scenario, I need to tell another one of my short stories.

Also, what if we as a species ever have to face an "Interstellar" type situation where we need to re-home the human race to another planet... how much will your property in Oklahoma be worth then?

I'll be spending every cent I have on me and my SO - Happy to help out the kids while I'm alive, but they need to learn to be self sufficient, independent and productive members of the planet.

I would like to agreed with everyone giving comments concerning those in need of Section 8 assistance for housing; in that, you have good, bad, and indifferent tenants no matter what their income level on this planet the poor, the needy, the meek, or the proud.

Rima and I keep people out of trouble with the highly-regulated toxic and hazardous materials - asbestos, lead, VOCs, soil and groundwater contamination, plus indoor air quality and the almost unregulated mold.  

For most of us we are only going to be investing for about 30 years on this planet from age 30 to 60.