For example has section 8 gone up each year or decreased or stayed flat?

(up 52 percent) and Detroit (up 51 percent).Major markets with big decreases in home flipping in 2013 compared to 2012 included Philadelphia (down 43 percent), Phoenix (down 32 percent), Tampa (down 17 percent), Houston (down 17 percent), Denver (down 15 percent), Minneapolis (down 9 percent), and Sacramento (down 5 percent).Read More....

A friend of mine is buying a house next week, and when he looked at the settlement package, he noticed that he's getting a special warranty deed (SWD) instead of a general warranty deed (GWD).

Obviously this will decrease the cash flow of one property and I need to find out by how much, but I just want to know if it's possible and maybe what questions I should ask the bank.

Any decrease in your rent would also be considered compensation.

I have noticed in my area that properties are going for more than they're worth.

I will be giving notice on my apartment and won't have a place to life if he backs out.

While researching an area I was considering (stockbridge) I noticed The number of active foreclosures was well over 100% higher than the national average, other areas nearby were even higher.

I have noticed that people don't pay more for a large house and more land in comparison to other houses in the same neighborhood.

The way we structure our leases requires them to give us 45 days notice prior to move out and to allow us to start showing the unit least 1 once a week so we usually rarely have any gap from one tenant to the next.We haven't had any problem tenants yet since we screen quite thoroughly but if something were to happen, I guess we would prefer it to happen in an average updated home rather than one that's completely redone.Now if we were to start flipping, we would probably redo everything but for buy and hold in our target areas market rent, average to + average condition, seems to work well.We have seen some renovated units in our areas and they look a lot nicer but the rental premium isn't too much of a difference and it seems they take longer to rent out.