In my early days, I once answered the phone and a friend chided me about how I answered so I've been sensitive to coming across as very professional.

Hey @Aleksey Vinogradov , both myself and @Ankit Duggal let you know that in NJ if you try to raise the rent to market value, and that raise is 10% or greater than the current rent, the tenants can easily take you to court and the chances are greater than not the judge will rule against you because the raise will be considered unconscionable in nature.

My focus with regard to environmental issues was naturally the closed gas station even though I had a clean tank letter from DEP dating back to when the tanks were removed...mistake!

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I was trying to see if construction workers could make it work but judging from the responses including that of Jon Klaus, this route may not work simply due to the seasonal nature of the job.

(At this point, I offered to have him added to a phone call that I would start before with a bank representative on the line--to avoid him hearing sensitive account information--and he rejected this proposal: HUGE RED FLAG.

When I asked her why she said "Taint natural to **** where you sleep"

Having my IRA buy out an LLC allows what I think are the two most important things:1) better control over the money, especially when it comes to time sensitive real estate transactions2) reduction in fees from my IRA custodian.

During one of our remodels, we used a "handy man" to complete some work that was mainly cosmetic in nature.

I really like the old SMART goal acronym (see below) but it gets a little murky when it comes to real estate investing because of the multi-dimensional nature of our favorite asset class.For example, many investors list goals in terms of the number of units they want to own but the problem is that that doesn't necessarily lead to an income or wealth goal because there are so many ways to finance or structure the deal and rent – to – value ratio (RV ratios) vary dramatically based on geography and price range.I think the best way to approach this is to set in overall portfolio value goal and an income goal related to that overall asset value while disregarding financing options, at least initially.