Check taxes, too, as they can dent cash flow immensely. 

Leave the baseboard for now unless the expense of heating is immensely too much.

The support, knowledge and education you can gain from those with experience will benefit you immensely! 

Article is sensationalist, contains racial coding in order to appeal to folks that dislike African Americans and Latinos, and factually wrong on several points.I'm not going to go paragraph by paragraph and correct the author, I'll just say that:* Yes, FNMA HomeReady is now a thing.* No, this isn't recession-causing nonsense. * Use of boarder income must be documented over 9 of the 12 most recent months.

Thank you all for making this community great and keeping it alive as well as sharing immense knowledge.

I'm not sure about Asians living there, as this was a very African American area when I lived there 4 years ago, but I guess things could have changed.

There is an immense amount of useful information on this site.

I am one of those hands on people so it would help me immensely to have someone with experience to crunch the numbers with me.I have some properties I have been looking at in Kent and Tacoma that may be potentially good deals.Would appreciate any help possible.Renata M

I am  African American and my dads good friend and business partner is a Hasidic jew and I can give you his number as a reference and he will tell you how much he loved making money in this city!

Hi Dawn, I just found this thread and enjoyed it immensely.