Its not like a mortgage to get that extra rent, I think that might be a fast way to develop a reputation with tenants as trying to get slick and make extra money.

Government regulation always backfires for numerous reasons, not the least of which is the law of unintended consequences.

The multiplier effect may be a strategy - although the consequences of anyone crying wolf would also have to be accepted.

From what I've read, their sales tactics are about the same.No reputable business would operate in the manner they do (you have to by the membership, for thousands of dollars, NOW, or be forever blacklisted).

Consequently we have not this market like the US.

Before a good commercial broker spends time, effort and reputation on you he will want to see proof of how much capital you have to invest and your ability to obtain financing for a commercial project.

There will be no tax consequences on these funds and no need to do 1031 etc.

The law of unintended consequences again.

The result has been that politicians from both parties draw strange boundaries designed only to get them re-elected by reducing the number of voters of the opposing party in their districts.The consequence of Gerrymandering has been that a politician only needs to pander to his own primary in order to win.

I recently hired one of my tenants in an apartment to work for me at the apartment complex, doing maintenance work. (He is a close friend - I do not recommend letting tenants work for you).

If he works in exchange fo...