I am a successful professional NYC singing teacher and "thwarted architect" and gardener (project-oriented with an underutilized visual talent) currently living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

“Creative” is just thwarting the intent of the program, basically cheating.

We were able to ferret out a family of Professional Tenants yesterday after picking up on few 'red flags' on their applications. The short story: They seemed very nice, applications looked reasonably strong with respe...

Lots of good info and insight here.My experience with distressed sellers is that they are best dealt with "in the moment" as there are countless things that can happen between your contact and meeting to interfere and thwart any efforts, including competiting buyers, solution choices and change of emotional state of the seller.

I'm in south Florida and real estate values are way too high in my opinion and thwart any chance of being profitable for the buyer. 

Some of ours are: Renter's insurance, HOW to pay rent, HOW / WHEN to tell me that they're terminating tenancy, where to park, where you can't park (the lawn), a bed bug addendum, a mold addendum, expectations of cleanliness of their unit (to be able to thwart off serious hoarding) and common areas, no window coverings/tapestry/sports flags - must be blinds or curtains.

The eliminates any leverage they may have by stalling or thwarting your purchase.  

Campaign promises are likely to be curtailed, re-formulated or scrapped all together to ensure markets / business don't de-stabilize and thwart growth. 

Your best laid plans can be thwarted in an instant when dealing with human behavior. 

This puts many inexperienced and uneducated people into positions which cause the local officials and legislators to seek ways to limit them and thwart their activities, which limits the entire REI industry.It's just the system responding to the bad stuff, which it should.How can you bring "a great deal" to an able investor if you yourself don't know what makes a deal "great"?