If someone is a reasonable human being, and has a legitimate issue that they communicate to the landlord, even if it technically doesn't coincide with the lease,  I would usually try to work with them.  

So the check from the lender is cash to you.In order to do it yourself you would need to be a 'dealer' in CA and a licensed lender.

Apparently drug dealers can never be redeemed in HUD's duplicitous and warped view of reality.

I must therefor be able to eliminate these risks and at the same time protect myself from charges of discrimination or human rights violations.

What I don't get is that the existing style windows don't allow for egress, not for adult human beings at least, so how is it OK by code to just fix them?? 

Cheap doesn't equal good investing...you have to remember that we are in the human behavior industry...the property is merely an extension of your tenants.Best of luck and let me know if I can help!

If you run a rent-to-own furniture store and someone has marginal credit and you see that they had late payments to two other repos to furniture dealers, they probably won't go there.If they have a mortgage discharged, they will be waiting 7 years to get another one with reestablished housing credit.Discharged BK folks are ideal targets for credit card companies, they send offerings probably by the box full since they are a better credit risk, giving them a real opportunity to reestablish their credit at only 24.9% APR, LOL

My family and I have a strategy of fixing multi-families to like-new condition with low-maintenance fixtures, split tenant-paid utilities and keeping an answering service for basic call routing (which we recently switched to Google Voice because humans weren't necessary anymore).Some of us live where we invest so we have someone who can drive around the houses as needed, but it's largely hands-off.We have a total of 15 x 3-4br units and in total get minimal calls each week (2-3).

Sure, the plaintiff's attorney will roll out the victim's widow and all the crying kids while trying to paint you, the evil landlord, as some callous greedy miser with no regard for human life or compassion, but the court will ultimately sort out the matter of law from the matter of fact.Just be glad we don't live in North Korea. :-)

I am sure your location is different; my parents are in New Orleans and the landlord moved crack dealers into the house next to them 9 years ago.