We lock up quick and force payment and back on to Autopay, quickly; or we increase their rates and tell them they have to leave unless on Autopay. 

You can't actually use this money for anything until you sell, then your either hit with capital gains or forced to put it back into another property.

Sometimes homeowners are forced into bankruptcy.

I think it's both the market as a whole and the REITs pushing up the prices and smaller investors forced to pay their game because there's so few large complexes like that left after the institutional investors gobble them up.

They also force you into working in their molds and expect you to adapt to their software.

I would suggest right outside Houston: Spring, Katy, Humble, Pasadena, Friendswood, Cypress I am buying my first multi in Old town Katy, because it is way less volatile than Houston but close enough for folks to drive out there.I would consider Baytown right now, there is $500M going into steelworks soon and all the labor force is going to need somewhere to live.

My family and I had to relocate across the country to keep my employment. With little time, we packed a Uhaul, threw the rest of our belongings into the pole barn and left MI. It seemed like fate, in that time our nei...

I am looking to potentially do the following for each unit: Remove the steam radiators and switched to forced airAdd central ACSwitch to gas (gas line is coming to the house already for cooking)Add hot water heaterAdd a sub panel for electric (only needed on 1 unit)I realize this is a big job but I am getting quotes that I think are very high.

I do know there is an Air Force base located in Atwater which is just adjacent to Merced and having a High Speed Rail System available to get to work would provide military personnel a lot more of a choice on housing locations.

Working with attorneys and the court system to get contracts on forced sales of RE and the contents.