I was looking through a local property manager's contract and I found the following clause that seemed a bit suspect to me:"Owner shall pay all expenses incurred by Agent, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and Agent’s costs and time, and any liability fines, penalties or the like, in connection with any claim, proceeding, or suit involving an alleged violation by Agent of Owner, or both, or any law pertaining to fair employment, environment protection, rent control, taxes or fair housing; including but not limited to, any law prohibiting or making illegal discrimination on the basis of race, sex, creed, color, religion, nation origin, or mental or physical handicap.

As I said previously, for smaller markets your most accurate figures will probably come from a local professional since national market research firms aren't going to spend large amounts of resources surveying smaller MSAs in depth.

Also you will save money by "depreciating" half of the duplex, that's indirect money, but it saves you in taxes paid every year.Also, if you have the cash, try to leverage it and either flip smart alongside few buddies that know the game, though note flipping activity has slowed down across nation as inventory amount decreased and price increased.

There are exceptions, but the squeaky clean tenant base of Provo is arguably one of the best tenant bases in the nation (definitely not talking about single student housing here) in terms of their ability to pay and the way they treat your property.  

Not to mention was 3/4 time student at university, serving as marketing lead for the local school board, and the VP of a national professional organization.

While rich people (lawyers, doctors...) paid the most in tax and had little assets.I was offered a similar insight from a executive that works for a large national payroll processing company.

Florida housing prices, which hit a peak in December 2006, are slowly and gradually recovering after the Great Recession nosedive — the state’s fall was among the harshest in the nation — but lately, the trend is positive, stoking renewed interest in real estate.According to the S & P / Case-Shiller index, considered one of the most reliable indicators of market trends of local real estate, real estate prices in the Miami area have been in uninterrupted march upward from November 2011.

Most of our properties have some type of problem, whether it is tenant related, deferred maintenance, etc.I think we are becoming a renter nation, and you can see that by rental rate increases and tighter supply.  

I don't believe lis pendens are typically filed in probate cases, so that would not be a reliable source regardless.As for sources on probate cases, you would need to pull that information from the court in each county that handles probates. 3147 counties nationally.

. :) They spank me if I out-compete a local branch of my same company, though, and it's not hard to figure out that Loan Originator Joe in the Eureka branch pulled Sally's credit two weeks before I did from my Bay Area office, so I have to be careful.Taken to the extreme, I have a coworker that used to be at Wells, and thus could lend nationally (big banks excluded themselves from all blame for the recession, so they have zero education/training/testing requirements and can all lend nationally, which is bonkers but that's another story).