Essentially it means there is now a $50 transaction fee which wasn't there before (I do pass this fee on to my borrowers).Up until last week I thought they had improved considerably.

At some point, you're going to get called by a code enforcement person, or they will just remove the signs.Location is essential.

A $100 trip to the grocery store will become $500 because food is essentially oil made edible.

A keen understanding of the market and the prospective retailers for this location is essential for its success.

technically we don't pay rent in the normal sense so essentially we are going from NO cost of housing to having a mortgage and everything that goes with it. we get more money living off base than on so its not that we are trying to find $1k out of thin air but we are having to pay electric, water, trash etc now whereas its FREE right now.

I don't think this is essential but it does give the listing agent a little more motivation to sell me the property because then they get both sides of the commission.

Here's my understanding of how this is suppose to work, correct me if I'm wrong:Up till we transfer his half to me our Schedule E's will both show half of everything and be essentially identical.While we are partners, neither of us can deduct our labor as an expense on the schedule E, but if contributions get uneven a check should be written from one partner to the other to even it out, but that's not reported anywhere.When He transfers his half I can pay him managing fee's and labor cost for his repairs and deduct them.

I know it would be essential for me to meet more landlords and talk to tennants as well.

You should also keep in mind that when you refi you "miss" a month of mortgage payment, so if your monthly payment is $800, you can really knock that off of the closing costs as you're essentially paying it in closing costs instead of in a mortgage payment.Banks suck, but they give you money at insanely low interest rates, so you have to make the sacrifice.

It is essentially a real estate investors chart of accounts with instructions for every conceivable transaction including mobile home notes, subject to's, returning security deposits while withholding repairs, etc.