7)  Are you prepared to be sued by your tenant or named in a criminal suit if an airbnb guest harms or commits any crime against your tenant or his apartment?  

@David T.

They seem like great people, and we appreciate their doing the labor to make the house "theirs", and we gratefully intend for them to have much lower rent for the foreseeable future, but we just want to be sure that the t's are crossed and the i's are dotted before we let them actually move in to what should be a "legally habitable" house.Thanks for any replies, and fyi we are in California.

Although there is correlation to real estate due to foot traffic and density, the majority is driven by coverage requirements from the wireless carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint).

To answer your other question - not unless you want to be committing loan fraud.

I'm new to the East Coast so I might be a bit behind on my area knowledge and I have no idea how to find deals, but nonetheless I'm committed to starting this year.Thanks everyone for sharing so much useful information without all the pitchy get-rich-quick nonesense that seems to plague this business.

. :-) Jerry:At -16F, a T-shirt is only suitable for short outings ... say taking the garbage to the curb ;-) Sometimes tough doesn't cover for poor judgement.

In fact, I'd go one step further in saying that neither parties have committed a wrong.

I thought about the CFA but that is really more for portfolio managers (stock and bond investments) and a huge time commitment.

I would go there before committing to a bank.Search the forums.