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8 April 2020 | 8 replies
You may need to go to the local governing authority and describe the specifics of the property to the zoning department or planner.
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22 July 2022 | 25 replies
Force Majeure would be if your house burned down or the government made you shut it down like a business.
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19 October 2022 | 32 replies
Unfortunately, within the fee section (66000) of government code, a "school district" is determined to not be a "Local Agency" or "Special District".
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4 February 2021 | 7 replies
Hey folks, like many out here, I've relied for a few years now on "passive" income (as the government would call it) from my rentals here in Southern California.
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18 May 2020 | 8 replies
Government agencies became involved when the number of complaints from sellers, who retained liability on the notes, and lenders who saw defaults increase, reached a certain number.
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24 April 2020 | 3 replies
I've recently moved to the DMV area while working as a technical consultant for the federal government within real estate for GSA (General Services Administration).
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22 April 2020 | 1 reply
The tax code is a slowly changing beast, but that may all change if Covid continues for many more months.From a long term perspective, such corrective action by the fed (monetary policy) and the government (fiscal policy) has several long term implications. 1.
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7 April 2020 | 9 replies
We sent out information to our tenants on how to prevent COVID, how to apply for the government check and how to more quickly file for unemployment.
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6 April 2020 | 1 reply
If you really do the math, you may find that freeing those funds to invest without government handcuffs is totally worth the tax and penalty.
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8 April 2020 | 10 replies
Local government has no power to mandate this, though we have asked the state to do so (also some deep legal questions), and I support the federal government doing this (after all, our tax dollars, we should have some say about how they are spent).