If you have good credit above 740 and have 25%-30% to put down it’s really not a difficult loan process. 8 Units typically will offer a 1.25% DSCR ratio which is required in most cases but the approval is going to be based on the rents.

I'd follow JW's thought process and even consider posting a note on your neighboring doors...to let them know as a neighbor that it isn't appreciated that there is smoking inside, please kindly consider taking your smoking outside.I feel like the approach is everything here...Chicago is a weird place and hard to enforce a lot of things.  

If you want to really go for it and speed up that process, downsize your life.

She cannot withhold rent without following a strict process.

Because I was willing to walk away from the deal and had no emotional attachment to the house, I went back and forth on the price settling at 10% below their lowered price which was a total of 15% below the original asking price of $1,099,000.

Does anyone know the process of when you purchase a home with a section 8 tenant in place.

Assuming they're refusing to pay, pore over every detail of your lease and proceed with exactly the processes called out by it (and get advice from your lawyer concerning State laws/procedures to follow in case they may trump your lease terms). 

I'm a US citizen but currently living in Israel, and I'm in the process of purchasing a property in Columbus Ohio.My plan is to do some rehab and therefore I want to take a hard money loan which will cover 80% of the purchase price and 100% of the renovation.While talking to the title company, they said there was no problem with me signing with a remote notary.But, the problem is with the lender who requires a wet signutre, and has given me the following options:1.

amazing how emotion can railroad logic.

Point here being: 1) you want it done right; 2) you do not want to be responsible for someone elses accidents; 3) You want to streamline your process (everyone is happier this way); and 4) you want to run your buisness as a business.