Good tenants are good pet owners, period.By accepting pets, I can rent places faster, they stay longer, and they pay more.Instead of automatically denying them out of fear, figure out how to screen properly, establish solid rules, policies, and procedures, and reduce your risk while monetizing this niche.

Every lender sees the inquiries and knows you are shopping  or maybe denied, there is no way to keep it secret.Credit pull done within a window of 30 days does not bring score down BUT once you open five applications and time passes all five can update and re-pull thus crashing the score.Rate is not the only thing to shop for.

I hope I can go with cheaper older home, however you probably never know how much insurance would cost until after you bought the house and insurance underwriter approves or denies?

The only drawback of an FHA  loan is that it requires an FHA certified inspection, Many times I'v seen FHA loans get denied due to their stricter pass inspection requirements.

There are a lot of negative comments about "in-house" maintenance staff, and indeed, the opportunity for abuse is there, but with proper vetting there is so much to be gained by utilizing them.

Main Line Bd. of Realtors®, 304 A.2d 493 (PA), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 979 (1973); Grillo v.

But been denied, mostly they dont want to count the income from the current rentals, and will not look at the 3 units and the income from them.

If you have to step in yourself, bad tenants won't care about who owns the building, they'll care about the person in front of them denying them what they want (you said yourself that they threatened the manager, not the owner). 

I already have a HELOC with PEN FED however, was denied to increase the limit because of my DTI was at 50%.

What are the implications of accepting and denying section 8.