We debated stone counters but being conservative with our money on our first investment property and not wanting to overspend versus comparables in our neighborhood ( yet still wanting a nice look), we ended up going with marble-look laminate counter tops from Ikea.

An effective way to understand that I've found is to set yourself a firm budget and put it into the search criteria on Redfin, start hearting or x ing out everything that looks like it would be a nice place to live, once you finish you can zoom out on the map and see where you have clusters of faded out bad houses and clusters of hearts, most cities I've done this with end up giving you a pretty good pattern.

Wouldn't want to be their lender.I think it's likely that behavior patterns may have permanently changed and many students, much like workers, will do their jobs as students remotely. 

We are in somewhat of a holding pattern.  

If, and it's a big "IF" Fundrise hasn't mismanaged investor money, grew it's asset base rationally and is not highly leveraged, then smart money should be on a hold pattern, not redemption.

Given the pattern that existed long before covid, I am planning on filing for eviction (I realize it will not happen for a while but want to get it filed to get her out as soon as evictions open up again).

Hi Hai,I think we will have to wait until the smoke (Cohiba) clears from this Corona thing before an accurate assessment can be made of what is going on.So much is in a holding pattern right now, and we really don't know the "Crash and Burn" rate (if any) that there will be from this right now.

Lenders are kind of in a holding pattern right now however each case could be different.Creating the legal documentation is not difficult if you partner with the correct legal team.

Sometimes title/escrow do too for property tax pro-rations, I've never really taken the time to find the patterns.

It really seems to be a combination of taxes, weather and family that influence the migration patterns to the Carolinas, Florida, Arizona.