If you have good credit and income in Canada - some Seattle lenders want your business when you buy across the border here ...shoot me an email if you want a rate sheet and terms,...

Now, the other tenant is wondering if I'll consider a border collie lab mix that is house trained.

The first time someone breaks in and takes the fridge it will pay for itself when combined with the insurance discount and the tenants will really appreciate it.With all the  pitfalls and hidden costs even if you get a good tenant it will be more profitable in the c neighborhoods.Make sure to but on a block without too many border ups and has no stores on that block.Good luck if you go this route. 

Outdoors we had concrete mow strips, stamped concrete borders on the driveways, etc. again standard.

Both are nasty and, since I have one of the most sensative olfactory organs of anyone I know, you can't cut corners to my satisfaction.My last deceased person was a borrower of mine that was in foreclosure in a manufactured home in San Diego, CA area.

The last time I had to go through it, I repainted the cabinets and had everything deep-cleaned, twice...and it looked "OK" at best.I don't know if the return will justify the expense...I rent the place out just fine, but in the back of my head I feel like I'm bordering on disinterested landlord (slumlord?)

Some border patrol agents were killed when they put there bulletproof Tahoe in park, the doors unlocked, and the bad guys opened a door and shot them all.

I have a fourplex bordering that area off Broadway and Franklin that has done well over the past 14 years.

Its easier to repaint and I do not let the tenants paint or use wallpaper or borders.

Some of the other strategies taught that border on practicing RE is where the issue can lie.