I assure you VA did not know or authorize this to happen nor did the Asset Manager   Unfortunately VA, HUD , Banks or even an individual who forecloses on a property has no duty of disclosure in most statesHopefully it is just household items and trash and all will be ok.

The challenge is that 1/3 of our household income is location based.

We require a household income of 3x rent and will consider 2.5x with an additional security deposit.  

The only thing is I want to stay home with her.My wife and I have owned several fixer uppers over the year, and have become quite good at household repairs, and while we are first starting off I think that will come in handy.

My thinking here is that the demographic attracted to Somerville are younger professionals (DINKs or single person household) and they accept the noise as a given to having access to the train.

I currently live with my parents and as long as I'm respectful of their household, I am welcome to stay at home .

My wife is leaving her teaching job to join me full time in real estate and because we will be a fully self-employed household we are worried that a conventional loan is going to be out of reach (Hillary is legally employed until end of August).We have about 10% that we can put down on the purchase of the house.

But basically, if you are looking at multi-family housing anywhere, two key metrics to look at include average household income, and rental prices.If we figure that once a wage becomes unlivable, then rental prices have to drop.

They are not as stable as a higher income earning household that may be looking for a rental payment between $1,000 and $1,500.  

Cottage Grove is perceived as moderate in household incomes but that isn't actually accurate.