Since you have not matched, you can't be certain where you'll be a year from now.

I think people buy multifamily with not enough reserves, don't plan for capital improvements, start deferring maintenance, slowly the deferred maintenance catches up, resulting in less occupancy which leads to foreclosure.

Sometimes agents will let you out of contract if they are not getting results.

Owners work with contractors, management companies, vendors and the public at large; owning land allows you to bring people together to take ideas and create projects that result in everyone being happy.

It's self-perpetuating and just results in more and more investor-owned as owner-occ's can't get financed.I talked to Wells last week about a conventional investor refi on a condo THAT MEETS the guidelines and was told that Wells no longer offers refi's to any investor owned condo's - regardless of the investor ratio.

I like to take those numbers and match them against the rents asked for on Craigs list as well as the local newspaper.

Any opinion to the contrary given by anyone else will result in the accusation that "you are trying to stop competition because you're afraid we will be successful" or "everybody has to start somewhere " and they will tell each other "don't be discourage by negative thinkers". 7- the best education in real estate comes from courses given at colleges and or by realtor organizations or by CCIM.

If they skip or break the lease which results in damages, you can file a claim in court and the resulting outcome could result in a judgment against them.

If they can't(don't have the info, etc) they're probably not going to work out anyways.I think if you set the tone and set it early, you'll get better tenants and better results.

All in all, in all my business schooling there is 1 model they taught that perfectly matches all the events of the last 10 years....... the hostile take over.