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27 April 2020 | 8 replies
This bill denies equal justice to housing providers by:Forcing landlords to reduce rents by 25% even if a tenant cannot demonstrate a hardship or need.Allowing judges and the court system to set rents and change the rental agreements already in place.Assuming every tenant is facing a hardship related to COVID-19 and must be compensated for this hardship.Protecting nuisance tenants as it does not require tenants to answer an unlawful detainer complaintMandating that rental property owners demonstrate an economic hardship to collect the contracted rent.AB 828 is an unfair attempt to allow the government and the courts to give reduced rent to all tenants even if they have faced no economic hardship, and it provides no safeguards for landlords.As for the taxes, local laws are not state laws and state laws are not feral laws and state to state laws are different.
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30 April 2020 | 66 replies
If you can't turn into a normal rental over this Corona period and the reduced tourism that is going to follow you are in trouble.
30 April 2020 | 8 replies
I assume that a %3.5 payment is a great start by going the live-in way, but what are some of the ways that I can look at reducing my closing costs?
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28 April 2020 | 2 replies
Costs: 155k (working on lowering w/ closing costs included)HOA: 265 month (includes external maintenance, tennis and basketball courts, and poolRent: 550 (11x13) and 500 (11x11) according to comps + utilitiesProperty taxes: 1500/yrI have 110k in private student debt, but after putting a down of 17k - I won't have to pay for rent and my commute to work is greatly reduced.
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29 April 2020 | 6 replies
When we offer to allow them to pay either interest only, or half payments, we also tell them that we will extend the note term because if principal is not reduced, and the payments when resumed are not increased, then the number of payments are increased in order to repay the principal.
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30 April 2020 | 7 replies
They have reduced pay to cleaning staff and others.
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11 July 2020 | 34 replies
This is the municipal code that the tenant quoted that allows them to withhold rent:5-12-110(f)(4)“Withhold from the monthly rent an amount that reasonably reflects the reduced value of the premises due to the material noncompliance or failure if the landlord fails to correct the condition within 24 hours after being notified by the tenant; provided, however, that no rent shall be withheld if the failure is due to the inability of the utility provider to provide service”They ended up withholding 2 days of rent and would not reply to the previous owner’s correspondence afterwards.
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30 April 2020 | 13 replies
I’d like to reduce them so I can reinvest on buy and hold rentals.
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28 April 2020 | 0 replies
It was on market for over 150+ days since Nov 2019 so the price was reduced from its original $115k.
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24 March 2022 | 11 replies
As real estate is a business would this reduce my tax liability on the regular job?