If I want to retain full value of my property than I need to maintain a lease for all tenants.

Because I moved two walls in adjacent bedrooms, I had to convert the bedrooms to arc fault breakers.

He said the home insurance policy just covers the house from the walls out.

For that matter, once the mortgage is given by the borrower to the Mortgagee, the borrower only retains an equitable interest per se.

This includes new wiring insulation gutted kitchen and bathroom 2 walls knocked down and my basement (which right now is just a regular bricked basement with water and toilet hookup.

Retaining the utilities in our name provides us with the ability to measure the impact of these changes on the operating cost of the property.  

You accrue more equity, equity in the walls don't pay interest, the only benefit is how the equity might be used, if at all and the rate of appreciation can be applied to equity.

Their auction guidelines specifically state that the auctioneer is authorized to bid the wall, or in their words:"Except where prohibited by law, the auctioneer may open bidding on any property by placing a bid on behalf of the Seller and may further bid on behalf of the Seller, up to the amount of the Reserve price, by placing successive or consecutive bids for a Property, or by placing bids in response to other bidders."

So the stock market is not doing well and borrowing is tight. What impact have any of you seen on your real estate investing with rentals in particular?

When there was a big market for notes on Wall St., a retailer could sell, say, a batch of furniture with financing.