There are just not enough bodies to deal with it...not at the police, not at the shelter level, not in the community.  

It is advisable to do your due diligence and ask about such things as how long have they been in business, are alternative assets their sole focus, are they BBB accredited and rated, are they a regulated financial institution, have they ever been sanctioned by any regulatory bodies, how many accounts and how much in assets do they administer?

High levels, and low levels, of chlorine will both produce strong odors. 

You'll pay origination fees in one of three ways, the seller can pay it by building it into the price of the home, you can pay it cash, or the lender can pay it by using a higher interest rate to produce a surplus from the secondary market large enough to cover the origination fee (usually anywhere from .25 - .75% higher than if you paid the origination another way).If you can build the origination fee into the price of the home and have the seller cover it, that will typically be the best thing.

You may be able to find properties that can be properly managed to produce a positive net cash flow, for perhaps 20% down or less.

However, the other problem i am having is the owner producing income records for the property.

With or without a dog, walking around is very time-consuming, but can sometimes produce results.  

While I'd normally be against higher and higher levels of gov't telling those gov't bodies "under them" what to do, (like feds to the states, states to counties and cities, etc) I think the state legislature did the right move here, even though if I were running the inspection dept in Shorewood for instance, I'd probably be just as tough as they are now because they have a generally older housing stock ranging from middle class to grand old mansions along the lake and why let anyone come in and pull any half a&$ repair jobs on any property in the village?

You may want to listen to the podcast shows that Brandon Turner and Josh Dorkin produce on a regular basis.

Networking, they know peopleI don't want to be that wholesaler that promises deals and don't produce.