@Bill Gulley @Rich HupperA little diversionary word fun for a Sunday morning.While the roots are ultimately in latin (mortuus), mortgage comes to English from Old French, mort gage (literal translation: dead pledge)  - the name arises from the fact that the deal dies when either the debt is paid or payment fails.  

This guy is disabled which often translates into a more difficult path through life. 

They need a place to live and I "personally" have not seen this translate to bad tenant behavior.

Also, HUD has a max of 40% of tenant's income that can go toward rent; that translates to monthly income of 2.5x monthly rent at the minimum, and I do allow for that under certain circumstances with applicants.But when you have a different standard for government tenants as you've stated - I would be concerned that somebody might consider that discriminatory.

If you can cheaply update any metal fixtures (door knobs, and light fixtures especially) to a brushed nickel instead of brass, it will help give the entire place an updated look which usually translates to the property renting quicker.

It normally translates my Voicemail pretty good if I speak slowly.

As stated above Google's translations are terrible .. however I can usually pick out enough pieces to get a general idea, but I still have to listen to the sound bite.

I venture to guess you do have experience serving people and that translates nicely over to working with residential rental property.Attention to maintenance needs is one of the top satisfiers among tenants.

THIS ARTICLE some great points about saving money on closing costs.  It's written for residential owner-occupants but it really has a few thoughts that are  good advice for investors as well! A few things to point out...

Unfortunately, this usually translates into a valuation based upon market price (of comparable properties sold in the area); where a multi-unit would be primarily valued on cash-flow it produces.If you have one or more units which are not habitable, the appraiser may disallow (or severely discount) that space .... in the commercial world, if they are not producing cash-flow, they would have little-to-no value.