I also think the school system gets a bad rap, because people only talk about Menlo, Paly, and San Mateo if you're not going private.

I first ran the analysis at the listing price and doesn't look like a bad deal, but am I missing something? 

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From my initial research didn't find anything bad about the neighborhood also see that they got neighborhood of the year 2019 !

Is house hacking A Grade properties a bad idea (as long as the numbers work). 

So we are currently stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA. We bought a house here in a Oceanside with the intent to rent it when we move. Everyome was saying how they wouldnt be able to rent their own house becaise how high...

I'm hosting and often bring my lawyer's perspective with me to the conversations.We do "Best Deals" and worst deals (we call them "Bad Beats") episodes, and some contract forensics/deal post-mortem episodes as well.The main idea is to learn from both successes and failures.

They have bad credit, but the husband has now worked an ok job for a solid amount of time.

If you choose to get the chain of command involved, understand what you're doing is really highlighting a problem, and not necessarily making leeway towards getting them to pay you...which isn't a bad thing. 

Classic case of a city that once manufactured one or more products and had a strong blue collar influence, but now is mainly low income service jobs.