Ended up being expensive, but honesty the alternative is worse.

To plays devil's advocate or to simply provide an potential alternative narrative to how they got here could be as simple as going into the market and making loans to bad borrowers.  

Bigger Pockets is one of the most popular real estate investing websites online today.

Evaluating Whether There Is a Less Discriminatory Alternative The third step of the discriminatory effects analysis is applicable only if a housing provider successfully proves that its criminal history policy or practice is necessary to achieve its substantial, legitimate, nondiscriminatory interest.

Call the popular apartments near campus for a baseline lease term and timing od "the competition".

well I don't know much but popular opinion seems to be if you are worried a rent increase won't sit well with the tenants,  find something you can improve or repair that will justify the increase.

@Roger PokornyYour hunch would be the normal expectation ... and what use to play out here locally, before it became popular for parents to buy houses in which their kids would live while they attended university.

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Dwolla.com looks like a reasonable alternative but they don't publish their pricing online.

Alternatively, with insurance, wouldn't I have the option of just being paid on the claim and not having to rebuild.