I use soap when I shower, and occasionally eat cereal for breakfast: that doesn't mean I'm qualified for a job at a CPG company like Kraft, Proctor & Gamble, or Kellogg's.2) Following on 1), by listing it you make it fair game for the employer to poke around.

Of course, I am sooooo tired of getting all the spam phone calls.

If you're already heavily invested in capital gains stocks and your primary residence, I would say that you are introducing too much risk into your overall portfolio by buying (with leverage) an appreciation-only triplex.If you have a lot of other investments which generate cash-flow like dividend producing stock or cashflow REI and you like to gamble, I don't see a problem at all with buying this property hoping for some appreciation.Also, I would be wary saying you don't need the cash flow if you are only offsetting the negative cashflow with income from your job.  

Then, you can only charge them for anything that was on the list that they did not do - or for damage that was not visible during the inspection or happened after the inspection.So, if you didn't do this, getting them to accept a deduction is a gamble. 

Unless you can afford to gamble on iffy applicants.Unless you absolutely can't find good tenants for your rental, and absolutely have no other choice but to accept sub-par tenants, don't do it.That said, you can add something like, "a combination of criteria may be considered on a case by case basis."

Tell her she'll have to tell her story to the judge, and you'll accept whatever the judge says.How much you wanna bet, she took out her rent money out of her checking account, so she couldn't use it to gamble with at the casino. 

Some of us have done well in California, not by gambling or being stupid, but by picking up bargains when they present themselves and sitting the market out when there are no deals to be had.  

I squandered my cash in the stock market (to the tune of 250k…) but I've stopped gambling in stocks, and now have a bit built up in my war chest for real estate investing and money from my 401k available for investing.

So I started applying it to my real estate business and wanted to expand my social network, but I apparently took too much action too quickly for the Bigger Pockets system cause it blocked me for spamming!

I know Facebook is a good way but I keep getting spam replies about skip tracing.