Hey everyone, I'm new to the forum and wanted to take a moment to introduce myself.I run a small analytics consulting business in Boston, and develop data science courses for several online education platforms.I'm interested in real estate investing as a means of diversifying my portfolio and providing additional streams of passive income.

I totally understand the legal end of the security deposit, i was wondering if it is the same for the money for last months rent.

Birmingham have a lot of vacant tax delinquent properties. you cant fill out the application online to purchased the property

.), scrubbing the public records for notice of defaults (a list you have to manually do as our county doesn't have the records online), bandit signs (but 3 wholesale players have entered our market and take down every sign we put up), door knocking (Which takes up too much time).

Hey Alex heh sorry about that I totally posted my comment on the wrong one lol.

@ Ross Reeves I just looked up pa deals online and it looks like they have a mixed reputation.

So, in my market it generally makes more sense to leave it a SFR, unless you are going to totally blow it out to a huge multi-family, max out the square footage on the lot, and hold a long time.

I am a first time home buyer and am a total novice when it comes to short sales.  

Back-taxes of ~$2650 (headed toward tax deed auction, but perhaps not for another month or so because there is no set date yet)Total Liens add up to ~$6,000, without any interest the city may have added since they have been unpaid for a few years - I'm still waiting to hear back on that, but I don't think they were interest bearing liens. 

FHA has permanent pmi attatched total the loan.