My efforts to get other landlords to raise expectations of what's acceptable is working.

Now they finally are being released from their order they made it through but they had to raise a bunch of capital to do it and reduce their overall exposure to RE lending.

Let's not overlook the excuse to raise fees either, be the excuse real or imagined.

Without getting too personal, I'd like to know what some of you have done in order to save money; raise money; sacrificed, etc, in order to really make a splash in this game.

Whenever I go to local RE clubs, there is a reason why so many out of state investors looking to raise capital frequently come to pitch their projects to us CA investors; all the money is here.

The thing I love about being an agent is that it helps you with almost everything else RE related, whether it's raising money, doing rehabs, getting referrals etc.

But if nominally higher expenses/ft wipe out all profit, or a raise in prime by 250bp wipes out most/all profit, those results may be something that are totally plausible and I might be concerned.

When raising my kids, I always made a big deal out of little things, and little things never became big things.

If I add this rental, I will raise my profits by $500 per month.

If home loan is viewed as business, I suggest stop all guarantee and raise the rate to a reasonable level based on individual's credit scores.