Thanks for your mail, i am indeed serious about renting this unit and will be willing to offer you two months rent or a year to start with plus the security deposit in order to secure this unit prior to my arrival.Could you be kind enough to let me know what the electricity/utility cost would be ?

Signed lease, paid all rent on time, plus nearly $1000. security deposit.

You might check AARP web site (since these are largely targeted at seniors) and try calling some of these and ask how they work.I believe the way these work is that it is a loan secured by the property but without payments.

in case anyone wants to know the outcome of my nightmare tenants here it is: I offered them their security deposit and $1000 and they agreed to leave by the 1st.

Now I dont care about the money they owe me...its not gonna make me or break me, but I consider it my do gooder service to the world to make it official and on record they screwed me and so perhaps the next LL can view that and think again before buying their hard luck story the way I did...I just wish their last landlord would have done the same.

Lets do it . . . you've been gone for a while now . . . welcome back, officially!

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If they do I'll let em theres plenty of deals out there (it has never happened to me) If you want to be 100% secure call a realtor one of their listing tell them you want to submit an offer and ask them you to email a blank AS-IS contract make minor changes and your off.In terms of reading I went to a bookstore (library if you are short on funds) go to the realestate section get a stack of books and take out whatever seems the most interesting.

That's almost always secured by property.

However it is the low paid immigrants paying into the social security system that will keep it from collapsing.