I would contact Jeff Charlow of Charlow Law in Towson or Scott TInney of Cohen and Foreman on St Paul st in Baltimore. 

California is sort of its own beast when it comes to taxes and laws, much more complex than the vast majority of other states. 

Been looking at a little house with a "mother in law cottage." 

I got into a partnership with a friend while in law school and it helped pay for my education, but at the end of it I realized how fortunate I was with a good partner and solid investment.

Underwriter took the position that it looked like dad-in-law might be dummying up paystubs (or giving him a giant and real, but temporary, pay increase) to get his daughter and her husband out of the basement, and refused to use anything but the lower number that was on tax returns for husband's income calculation.

Depending on your states law, give a notice it’s going to be viewed.

I did not know, living in Florida, about the  California Foreclosure Prevention Laws which have increased the time and the monetary cost of foreclosing on property in California.

@Corey Law I wouldn’t do it as you pay high income taxes in California and high property taxes in Texas.

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If they are in foreclosure at the time you buy the property, that business model is against the law.