Cases heard in NY don't carry the weight out west that you think.Also, It isn't a question of whether it is "legal" to rent to an "Illegal" it is a question of the "illegal" lying about his status and thus causing risk to a landlord that the landlord should and has the right to know about.

it is heavily weighted i the lender's favor, and you want to make sure you don't end up having made 2 years of payments only to lose it at the end.

Even if it cost you some money it would have been worth it's weight in gold as an education.

Filing a formal complaint carries more weight than you might think and they all don't take a year, this is pretty easy to confirm since the time and date is on your contract.

I am exploring entering into a TIC where one person (me) puts all of the down payment in and the balance of the property financed between myself and my girlfriend at some split.My issue is that I know the down-payment dollars should be weighted more heavily in the ownership stake than the financed dollars, but I don’t know to what degree.In other words, if I put 20% down then it would reason that this 20% down should count towards a higher share than 20% of the ownership stake in the property, but I am not sure what a fair factor is…..10% (i.e. 20% down = 22% ownership).20%?

but have then.....First,  weight it for Fees, Taxation, and Inflation.....then have them give you your rate of return.

I would be pretty nervous being on campus anywhere with the huge influx of supply, especially if you have "maturity date" within 2 years coming due on commercial loans that would only work at what are historically low interest rates right now.This is article that was showing the new building inventory becoming a problem that will serve you good market research @Abhishek Banerjee"The owners of the Gramercy Park Apartments in west Champaign asked the board of review to reduce the assessment of their property, with a weighted age of 52 years, by more than a million dollars.

If you're new to the real estate game I would strongly suggest that you listen to the BP podcasts and take action on what @Joshua Dorkin, @Brandon Turner and their weekly guest is saying - their words are worth their weight in real estate gold.

The appraisal gets the most weight.  

I figured it was same as residential and walked out of that consultation $600 lighter!