I waited until I knew enough about investing, to reduce my risk, before I pulled the trigger and made my first purchase.I'm taking massive action to acquire properties over the next 5-6 years and take advantage of the low interest rates.

Here is the response.That's an estimate and it's definitely high, but it will be more than usual because it's investment so there are additional things that the appraiser has to do.

I ended up paying the HOA fees with the additional costs of the collections company - totalled at $6700 (the fees themselves would have been $4000) A couple of years ago they lease the condo to couple due to the wife's high credit rating.

I found a 2/1 that I would like to renovate and add an addition on it to make it into a duplex.

I had heard $50/unit but thought since these were mostly efficiencies that might reduce the total water usage.

What is your cost of capital, what is the effective rate with PMI, the trick is to reduce your cost of capital and then manage your use of funds by examining your opportunity costs.

He also has dubbed me "Mr Honest" for my information on reducing taxes.

Would it be against the law to copy those few lines and add it to ezlandlordforms lease?

Just make sure you screen tenants properly, and they will be a welcome addition to the neighborhood.  

Have them simply reduce the loan amount by the 5K.