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Michael R. Atlanta Investors-Is this a bad area?
2 April 2018 | 10 replies
About 80 percent of the time the property looked good in the picture but when you got there in a matter of a few days to a week the place was trashed.You have to remember for the small commission the REO brokers are making on these it is "cash for trash".Small lots,old houses,very high taxes,and aging city sewer system that is falling apart.Many of these houses the foundation does waves,electrical and plumbing is stripped,mold,etc.Smart local investors are buying outside Atlanta in the surrounding counties where they spend a little more but nicer areas and higher rents and lower property taxes.
Mark Nolan Unique situation
20 December 2011 | 31 replies
The county assessment has a market value of over $130k for the entire duplex, thats much too high with this poor upper side.
Shunda Walker Real Estate Conundrum
4 January 2012 | 4 replies
In my county if the owner misses 3 tax payments, then the property goes to tax sale.
Antonio Bodley Finding your buyers criteria.
26 April 2013 | 2 replies
They're smaller, tend to be on long, skinny lots (for a while most cities charged property tax on how many feet of street access you had, so you had a lot of long, skinny lots), and are in older areas of town.You can also find out the years properties were built by checking out the county records, or other means of snooping on one's neighbors- like http://www.city-data.com/, which is a good, free resource to get demographics of an area, and you can also go up and down streets (in my city at least) and find out what the tax records say- bedrooms, bathrooms, tax appraised value, all that good stuff.There's lots of places and tools to get that information, but that's one of the sites I use a lot.
Adam Craig Wanna be out of town investor but should I start local?
23 January 2012 | 10 replies
The Cook County property taxes rose so much in the past 5 years, it just doesn't make sense for me to own any real estate there.
Sam Sagor I would like to leverage a property - request some insight
30 January 2012 | 4 replies
Code violations are a city/county issue... as Michael said, it's not likely going to affect you with the bank.
Jason S. FHFA Bulk REO Rental Program Impact
30 January 2013 | 24 replies
I gotta think a program like this is going to do some serious damage.Where I'm at, they might be able to grab 3 or 4 homes in one of the towns if they packaged the counties together, but that really wouldn't kill the rental market.
Michelle G Accountant on Long Island Suffolk County
28 December 2017 | 1 reply

Anyone have a good one? Purchased 2nd rental in 2011 and a little nervouse about using my usual turbo tax.

Neetu Dsouza Advise on an offer on a rental property
26 January 2012 | 21 replies
l live in Montgomery County Maryland where the property prices and rents are on a higher side.
Scott Hinkle Investor friendly title company in Genesee County Michigan area?
29 January 2012 | 7 replies
Hi everyone, I have been doing some research on finding a good title company in my area of Genesee County Mi.