I know mechanics liens are dead and I'm afraid that attempting to put a assignment fee on the hud for more than $50k will raise a red flag since the properties are all short sales.

Owned water heaters The part that I made bold is sure to attract a specific kind of tenant :wink:

sounds like a red hot seller to me!!

So it depends upon why the carpet needed replacing and why the walls needed painting, and what broke the oven.I've billed a tenant for replacing the carpet when the carpet was in good usable condition, except covered with red spots from koolaid in every room.

Red flags will go up and you could run the risk of not getting an amended approval.

That is definitely not what I will be doing but would that raise a lot of red flags?

If you're going to try to do yellow letters yourself, be sure to use REAL legal pad paper, red ink, an ivory colored invitation envelope - with the flap tucked (not sealed) and ONLY a commemorative postage stamp.

There's potentially a lot of red flags in this deal.

For me the very first red flag is when meeting them for the first time, if they don't show up on time or don't even call you to say they are going to be late, I don't even bother with them again.

Boston has high rents, and although the nice red brick properties close to the center have an obvious appeal, the cap rates are lower than some of the 3 unit MFHs that are in places like Brighton.