Grand Rapids is saturated with very low housing inventory right now and Muskegon is one of the next logical places for rapid expansion. 

He looks like quite published and has avery relevant background to speak on such a topic: http://www.inman.com/2012/02/10/tax-reporting-tips...But there are detractors as well in the comment section, with someone (Steve Moskaluk) also very logically defending Stephen Fishman.What Stephen seems to say is: Issue $800 of 1099 to VA, issue $9.800 of 1099 to client, declare a business income of 1,000, and call it a dayOn the other hand, Buildium, PropertyWare and quite a few others like them, when you prepare your 1099 automatically at their site, prepares client 1099 for $12,000So what are we supposed to do?

I need to understand how a mortgage lender thinks re: short sales when they've been paid a mortgage for 8 years.Situation:  Nice 3/2, 1,350 sq. ft. SFR in good location (great neighborhood, near schools, desirable par...

I'm following just to hear the logic behind blaming the title company.You'll want to research the subject of nonconforming use and retain a local attorney to help you through this.

A live trap would give you that option.Daves' solution is to set 12 traps around the tires of your car every time you return home.I doubt many people are going to be able to do that over an extended period of time.I am 70 YO, the traps I use are very sensitive and trying to bend down and set them under every wheel without them going off would be very tedious, time consuming and too hard on my back.Dave keeps deleting my replies to his Youtube video because he doesn't have any answers to my logical questions. 

My logical question was why not just save money for a down payment or take equity out of your other property to get the down payment?

There is no logical reason to ignore your lease.

Seems kind of logical for me to live in an RV for a year, hoard away money and truly educate myself, get my real estate license (I'm 60% done with my course now), and then have a tangible item I can resell or keep after it's all said and done versus throwing away money in rent.

Imo, it really is the journey and not the destination and I'd trade it all to be able to do it again (I'd have to be young again though - no deal on just starting over as of right now)  haha.Good luck and please update this thread with your decision as I'm sure your logic will help influence my own.

What I hear people saying is that it is not prudent for inexperienced, under-capitalized newbie investors to shrug off what opportunities are available locally and concluding, using often faulty logic, that their market is "too expensive" and throwing their hard earned dollars into highly speculative ventures - whose risks they are too inexperienced to properly assess - promoted by promises of the "clear, blue sky."