When we were buying at auction, Foreclosure Radar was the standard operating procedure of anyone doing any real amount of business.

My quality standards must be too high, in the video she says 'looks great to me', and I'm thinking 'it looks like crap!'.

It's a different standard and expectation when it comes to returns on rentals.I have a friend who bought a rental in this area couple of years ago.

We have had "defenders" of such claims on BP in the past, that investors are not required to follow generally accepted accounting principles, true, in their accounting system, but they are when it gets to public investing or applying for financing, so the only reason to have a double standard would be to puff or inflate claims.

You're going to need good credit, meet DTI standards, have 20% down atelast, then the bank is going to want to do thorough background checks on your contractor, appraisals, double check your repairs estimate to be sure its accurate, yada yada yada.

If you have "housekeeping standards" as part of your lease, then you might have to make reasonable accommodations in that area too.

Standard is that is should be below either 140 or 160 ppm (I can't remember which).

This is principally due to the fact we have a standard lease {courtesy of the Rentalsman} which does not provide for guarantors within the lease.

The mother in law is too close to the property line for planning standards.

Then if I were going to lease to them, I'd use a standard one year lease that is automatically renewable except for 'cause' for one additional year.