There is a nice La Quinta SUITES across the street from their hotel for half the price...  

I thought to myself, "would I want to walk down these narrow stairs in the dark while I'm half asleep to use the bathroom?"

All in all, good problem to have considering I was in a damn apartment in an area I HATED 2 and a half years ago!

While in Indy, the monthly rent is half of it and you can get tenant out in 3 weeks easily, and this rent amount is not for a low end property, so as long as you do good screening, your chance of eviction is not bigger than CA. 

Now lets say I buy my first duplex and I rent out half and live in the other half.. fix it up build some equity etc...

In last 3-4 months I have analyzed over half a dozen deals from wholesellers, and there was no way I could have made those numbers work. 

I live in Palm Coast Florida and I got a call from a bandit sign from woman in preforeclosure. She got a loan for the house in 1999 for $63,000 and still owes $55,000. ( She has actually paid over $120,000 since her l...

My wife and have just started looking for tenants to live in half of our duplex once we move out. 

Sometimes it's an add-on, so you have to check to make sure they didn't half-*** it.

I live 40 miles away, so I called the owner of the biggest plumbing co in the city and he and 2 techs drpped everything to get to the property within 10 minutes of my call.I had put a garage outdoor access remote on the outside of the house.. they couldn't get in thru that because THE POWER WAS NOW OFF.Luckily i had put a coded door knob on the kitchen door that opens to the deck-- i gave them the code and they were inside instantly.The water heater was STILL SPEWING WATER full blast in a stream so strong it was hitting the second story ceiling and hitting the ELECTRICAL PANEL also located in the garage and that's what had knocked out the power .The plumbers immediately turned off the inside water main cutoffand sent me photos of the EMERGENCY SITUATION the pm so calmly let me know about by email an hour earlier.i fired the pm co that instant and got on the phone to start farm (my rental policy ins co) whiledriving an hour to the property.i also called the city's best WATER EMERGENCY REMEDIATION COMpany while en route.When i got there, the water was turned off ( finally)the drywall ceiling had fallen in, the light fixtures destroyed, the garage door open case was HALF FULL OF WATER and there were 1000s of mold blooms on every surface and hundreds of stacks of spiky growing black mold (looked like iron fiilings we used to play with in that game we all had as kids where u use a magnet and drag the iron filings around to put hair and a mustache on the bald guy cartoon photo) the mold spikes were 1.5" tall on the woot railings and stairs going into the house, on all of my beautiful built in wooden garage shelves--- what a mess-- like the streets of Beirut after the bombs went offand I don't have allergies -- but i could not even STAND inside the garage because the WET MOLD MILDEW SMELL was so strong it instantly gagged me and gave me a headache and i couldn't breathe.So here Ewe are on Jan 17 and now i know that the BEST rental dwelling policy dies NOT COVER MOLD REMEDIATION AT ALL ( so far $14,000) but it does cover water damage with a $2500 deductible...