After entering info it would give you a variety of reports, looking forward for 5yrs.

However, one of them still is valid and the tax payer listed on the lien is deceased (purchasing the property from her Son who 'inherited' the house).The Son feels that the lien should have been paid a while ago and perhaps the IRS simply failed to discharge it from record.

HML's, in my opion have a bad reputation due to the lack of professionalism, honesty and integrity of those who basically enter the arena with a sence of ruthlessness about profits driven by greed than any public service, not all, but enough to taint the barrel.Wearing a suit doesn't make you a professional, neither does a bank account, a college education or having an office.

The sales prices simply do not match up with the rental amounts.

Code issues are one thing, but there are so many other items that you might find that simply are not adequate and must be replaced.

Nothing is fool proof, but simply owning low cost rentals where you can afford to drop the rent and undercut most of the competition seems prudent.

If there is a filing agent on the owners behalf you can simply look up their name and contact them to get in touch with the owners.I also can do a tax search with a name that has an outdated address or no address to see if any other addresses pop up that they own.

They gave my wife permission to enter and she said there is not any damage that she noticed.

Hard to help without more information.At some point, you or the property manager entered into a contract with section 8.

Tell the bank you and the tenant want the tenant to sign the note as guarantors, to guarantee the note and pay the note from lease payments in the event something happens to you.Any bank can have a string of guarantors, they don't need to qualify, it simply gives the bank more people to go after in the event of default.The protection for the tenant is that in the event payments are not made as agreed, the bank can then contact the guarantor for the payment.