I like the question @Erik Chipchase raised.  

I was born and raised in Alaska and moved to Hawaii never to return.

(This is how I raise my cash in California!)

If you provided free laundry to a certain point, like a card that may be used so many times each month and then raise rents, that is a concession allowed to justify the higher rent.

They apparently raise money for new construction housing developments, almost exclusively in Philadelphia, and then offer "rent guarantees" (Anything with "guarantees" makes me skeptical and always sounds, to me, like it's too good to be true.)

Brianna:Banks will try to muscle you into submitting your taxes along with your mortgage payments - here they'll also try to sell you {life/disability} insurance to cover the mortgage in the event you are hit by a bus - however, they cannot force you to pay your taxes through them.

In search of my first multi family I came across a two unit (2 beds 1 bath per)Current List price: $185000 Current rents upstairs apartment number one is $650 **Rent comes from an agency not the tenant Apartment number two is currently $1145 **The Housing Authority pays the rent for apartment two ($829.00) with the exception of $316.00.Those rents have not been raised in the last 10 years according to listing agentTaxes $4430.21Sewer $140.00/per quarterInsurance $1200.00.

Another Seattle-ite, I'm on the north side myself, but born and raised so familiar with Kent and the area.

Sometimes there is no more room to raise the price(even on a $5K property) and there can only have one wholesaler to the end buyer with no more middle people.

It's sounds like the squatter is probably fairly well educated and may have even raised the question of adverse possession.