Verification document you can obtain from a tenant applicant, if you use them:Bank statementsTax ReturnsLoan statements Financial statements they prepareW-2 statementAll of the above can be verified after they sign an authorization to verify information, with the exception of their financial statements (self employed folks) as this would be a representation made to contract (ie, they take bankruptcy 4 months latter and fluffed their balance sheet you can terminate the lease if you cover representations made correctly)Any other verification document must be done under what is called "dual control" procedures, from the verifying source directly to you.

Work through your local hosing authority (who is broke like all the others) and develop a low-mod housing program, affiliate support with non-profits as well.

Folks, Realtors cannot just run around opening and showing properties that an owner doesn't give an authorization to show (That's a specific type of listing, not your authorization).Lot's to learn.

Thanks to Brandon Turner, Chad Carson, my good friend Sharon Vornholt, and Kevin Perk for putting my book "Landlording on AutoPilot" on TOP 10 Best Books for Real Estate Investors. I am looking forward to getting more...

I am also a cookbook author with books on Amazon about home food preservation.

Good relationship with the housing authority ( we are sure we can section 8 these units as a fall back being that there are hundreds of people on waiting list in the area) Rent prices including utilities can bring $550 for 1 bed , $650 for 2 bed.

No one is making any money- not the debtor, or her attorney or -relatively speaking- the bank employee who has to authorize it.  

Hello I met an unusuall situation and was wondering if some people can shed some light on it.I visited an house for sale by the owner, he told me that this house was condemned by the local housing authority on 2014 then transferred to an redevelopment company who in turn contracted him to re-develop the house and then sold it to him in 2015, He did so, and is now putting it up for sale in 2015. for around 100khowever it looks like there is an judgement and an lien from the previous owner who was deceased, it looks like the previous owner died and left an outstanding $79k mortgage, the court judgement totals 130k, and it looks like this house is also being planned at an sheriff sale, The county deed office shows that Mr. 

Hello I met an unusuall situation and was wondering if some people can shed some light on it.I visited an house for sale by the owner, he told me that this house was condemned by the local housing authority on 2014 then transferred to an redevelopment company who in turn contracted him to re-develop the house and then sold it to him in 2015, He did so, and is now putting it up for sale in 2015. for around 100khowever it looks like there is an judgement and an lien from the previous owner who was deceased, it looks like the previous owner died and left an outstanding $79k mortgage, the court judgement totals 130k, and it looks like this house is also being planned at an sheriff sale, The county deed office shows that Mr. 

I reached out to the author, Reuven Glick of the San Francisco Federal Reserve about it, and he said the main point was that today's buyers are less leveraged and overstretched than the last boom in prices, without necessarily assessing the affordability to the masses.