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2 August 2016 | 3 replies
After you have your bullets, you can call the building official, if that doesn't work, your local public representative, councilor up to mayor.
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4 August 2016 | 9 replies
(I thought 4BR might be a niche for attracting Section 8 tenants, but the Housing Authority wouldn't authorize over $1325 for one of my properties, which I recently sold for $155,000.
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17 January 2017 | 9 replies
Only the Housing Authority has our banking information for direct deposit into our bank account, for Section 8 rent payments.We also tell our tenants "Don't be late, mail by the 28th!"
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17 November 2018 | 20 replies
Public records is why the US doesn't have the level of corruption countries like Mexico and so many others do.Imagine if property ownership and debt information wasn't public.All kind of scams around debtTax assessors giving breaks to friendsStraight up theft of property (this happened to someone I met in Mexico - drug lord paid off officials to change record and steal his multi-million dollar beachfront villa - no public record to disprove, he's tried fighting for ten years to get it back with no luck)As you noted, LLC's don't provide any real privacy - there is no security through obscurity.
9 August 2017 | 27 replies
All the tax authority cares about is someone pays taxes on time.
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4 August 2016 | 11 replies
The applicant must make the request his/herself and authorize the results to be shared with you.
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3 August 2016 | 6 replies
I looked up the 2 people who are on some of the mail, and couldn't find any Information ( NO Address or Phone Number's ), but yet I do have their names via their names being on some of the mail, with the EXACT Address of the Property that I'm Interested inCan someone please recommend how to Contact and or find out who to Contact, and HOW TO find the Phone Number(s) of the Person(s) who have Authority on whether or not to sell the Property, aka the Trustee(s) ?
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13 August 2015 | 18 replies
We are working on a new construction project in South Boston which included demolishing a house and it's probably 3-5x longer waiting for approvals, meeting with city officials, getting utility/site work performed, etc than it is for the actual building of the house.
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28 August 2015 | 19 replies
I also got an authorization signed so I could contact his mortgage company to verify the pay off and see if we could get more time.
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16 August 2015 | 7 replies
I've been in partnerships with family before and keeping it official and documented always helps.