I no longer entertain buyers agents from Carbutti and Company due to a past bad experience with one of their agents. The scenario was that a buyers agent wanted to be an impediment to closing a transaction between on ...

I absolutely collected first, last and security for my class-C rentals until NYS prohibited that practice back in 2019.Many tenants cannot manage their money properly, so this mitigates the issue of not being paid last month's rent when they need to move and the new landlord is receiving those funds they have allocated for their housing during the last month of their stay.This was also helpful to me to pre-screen who has their financial house in order and had saved for their moving costs as part of their planning.If I still could, I most definitely would - without exception.

I have just bought my neighbors house and am renting out our old house next door. I’ve tried searching for people who have been neighbors to their tenant but haven’t seen anything yet.If you have experience in this I’...

google All inclusive Deed of Trust state of CA.. that will give you a really good description and if you can find the actual deed of trust to read its a great wrap document .. in practice   you have a current 100K loan at 8%  you sell by owner and take a 125k note at 9%  the 125k wraps the 100k.. you continue to pay on the 100k the while the new owner is paying on the 125k  payment lets say on the 100k are 1k a month the new payment is 1.2k a month you make the 200.00 delta..

I'm not saying that the increases have to be as drastic as the example I shared but you should be in the practice of increases to keep up with costs. 

Those are standard practices.

A title or escrow company cannot likely help you since there is no actual transaction happening and we (escrow and title) are only permitted to perform the act of deed prep for transactions, otherwise, it is considered practicing law.Here are a few options to help with the doc prep and recording:https://recordmydocs.com/https://directlegal.com/e-record/http://docstarservices.com/

So, keeping an eye on it and addressing minor fixes (like securing loose shingles) can be a practical middle ground.

It's now practically 50/50 we get another .5bps cut, just prior to Wednesday meeting it was 25% chance of getting that 50bps cut(from an original 50bps cut).Long way to go to Nov 7 though, and it's post election so we shall see. 

We have both a realty practice and mortgage practice.