A good realtor can argue an HOA fine down.

I know some people will argue about the Urban Core, it might be a little rougher, less desirable, however, it has great returns & some of the areas that skirt it isn't that bad.  

What happened most likely was they got the "tax due" stub in the mail but waited 45 days to pay it, so they were like 5 bucks short because of interest they did not account for, and they never bothered with it again and by the time my mailed rolled around they were into the government for a whopping $7.45*which I could not argue with, I was the moron here hah

Have you read "the ABCs of real estate investing " by ken McElroy?

With that in mind, when it comes to listing a property for sale, Zillow Talk argues that numbers that end in a 9 (with option 0s after) perform better than other numbers.

I'd argue the rehab financing was more cumbersome.It's much easier to get approved plans if you approach the project as an owner/builder.

But many people in the U.S. would argue that the new stringent qualification standards for FHA loans will keep these new loans from going “bad,” like they did in 2008 and 2009.

It's difficult to argue w/ facts/data.  

The judge then declared that she had to take the "standing" issue under consideration; in other words, she didn't know either whether it should be the IRA or the beneficiary (who is the self-director, but doesn't hold signature power) should be the correct defendant, or whether the IRA could even be sued at all (even though the IRA can hold title).We argued the merits of the case which was pretty clear-cut in my favor.After about two month we received the judge's written verdict which stated that the beneficiary had accepted responsibility by a) signing the contract (which he shouldn't have since he didn't have signing power - that should have been the custodian)b) showing up to trial and arguing his casec) counter-suing me for damagesThe judge showed that there was no question as to who was entitled to the deposit; we had not removed any contingencies and the escrow company was court-ordered to release the deposit to me.

@Shadonna Loganyoud have to ask my accountant, however,....my instinct would be to say no, uncollected rent isn't income to them though one might argue that the house possession without payment could be considered so.