One thing that I noticed is that although the amount of increase is clearly stated at no more than 5%, they completely neglected to mention how often that one may raise the rent this 5%.Given the tone of this though, there's a good chance that a judge would find 5% increases in rapid succession to be problematic.

From the perspective of raising investment capital, wouldn't you rather raise capital whose primary purpose is not profit?

This means focusing on the big-picture items, like longer-term strategy, fund raising and business efficiency.Then, the rest of the day is pretty much spent with the family while multi-tasking work stuff as it comes up.

I know he's conducting seminars to raise money.

If you have other consumer debt -- car, student loan, credit cards, etc. -- they get in line ahead of the mortgage payments.

Maria, Being an independent contractor isn't bad; however, your boss would have to give you a raise to account for their half of Social Security and Medicare.

Hi guys i currently working on short sale when i submit a offer for this property i use my LLC but is being a night mare they raise the property price twice they ask me for '' LLC Operating Agreement'' and now they asking me for my permit of my business or my operating licence is this is pretty common on a short sale or just here in Oregon I have solo ownership of my llc does anybody know what kind of licence m'I Supposed to get for this.

Thanks guys, i created another thread with the details on my deal.http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/83673-please-review-my-deal-analysis---henderson-las-vegasIn the past, I've always gotten 10-15% below market, but right now, I'm buying at market because of the low inventory and raising prices.

They have been chewing up banks, credit card issuers, and payday lenders right and left.

Hey Ryan,Wow - nice to see you raised the bar high for yourself!