Essentially the piece of the company referred to on the BP is their company that has invested billions of dollars in very recent time to buy thousands of houses in select markets around the country.

Vetting your tenant is the single best thing you can do and essentially the cheapest insurance you will ever buy.

Those as part of private equity, I am less sure.What I am essentially saying is that Wall Street got interested in main street and bought up on a massive scale single family homes (often in foreclosure) and through partners or subsidiaries managed them (or sold them off).

My attorney said he could write the mortgage up and 12% is in line with what hard money lenders are getting, and that is essentially what you'd be, a hard money lender. 

Painting the subfloor with oil based Kilz can fix the problem, but if it is really bad you may want to just replace that section of subfloor.

Used oil after I did my oil change for my car B.

I essentially do the same thing, I buy lots that are ready to build on, then sub all the work out. 

Further, our firm also has negotiated over a billion dollars worth of oil and gas leases.

I learned good stuff which are essential for newbies like me to get onto the REI path.

The other day I wrote about the oil & gas sector from an industry insider's perspective.