A landlord would need to be a knowing accomplice to a crime or completely disregard working with the city for an extremely long period of time after the property was declared a public nuisance before anything near the ballpark of a home being confiscated from a private owner would take place.If there are any landlords out there who've had their homes declared public nuisances I would recommend you move to evict the tenant in that situation.

just close on my second property I’m currently reading “ how to invest in real estate …” if anyone can chip in a little knowledge on what should I do as a extremely newbie into the real estate world of all ears. 

Obviously market value and prices are extremely expensive down here so we are looking more towards the vacation rental market for our investing strategy.

If you don't have that difference, the loan will be extremely risky, and if you could find someone who'd do it, the terms would be outrageous. 

I can almost guarantee that you will get very little to no information about these offers because of confidentiality that us agents must follow.The both of these are 100% case by case and indirect and speculative by nature, but keep them in mind while walking properties in addition to everything that you are supposed to be looking for such as potential value add, conditions of units & ages of Capex items in the basement, lease/tenant situations, etc.

This can help to reduce energy usage and save money on your energy bills in the long run.

Legitimizing yourself is key because owners many times have either been burned by owner financing before or have had really amateur investors approach them with it so they will be extremely cautious about it. 

Market value are extremely low on most properties which will result in a huge spike in property taxes.

They paid their own lights and gas and the same scenario I posted above would pertain to them as well regarding their lights and gas.For the tenants who had to pay the water bill, which we as landlords paid for ourselves, on behalf of the tenants, (and of course this would be stipulated in the Lease Agreement that they would be responsible for the lights, gas, and water bills) we would then turn around and bill the tenant for the water bill by typing up an Invoice out of QuickBooks and sending the tenant the a bill for the Water and also sending them a copy of the water bill sent to us from the Water Company to prove we weren't trying to charge them for more usage than what they used.  

Joe Schmoe62 years old$4,300 a month gross incomePlans on retiring in 3 years, wants to downsize to a more affordable unit in preparation.All seems great to me so far, but upon running his information (I used "MyRental" for the credit/background check), found that he has an extremely limited credit history?