Establish an acceptance/denial protocol and stick to it no matter what.

I had planned to go back to school to become a CRNA got accepted at UNF back in 2009 but I found out I was pregnant so plans change.

Normally title work begins when the Buyer's agent receives an email back from HUD showing acceptance of the contract and EMD.

(Home-study/correspondence courses are not accepted.)

When the wholesaler accepts your offer you give him the $5,000.  

The husband told me the $16k wasn't a big deal and that they would get the money to pay it off.Their counter-offer stated that they would accept the closing costs of Deed and contract preparation, and a termite inspection letter.  

I am working on trying to put together a deal on a multi family building and wanted to get some feedback on how much extra I can pay for a property in exchange for receiving seller financing.

The property is a 30 un...

If you cave and accept a tenant you feel is not a good fit with other tenants, that could affect landlord-tenant relations.

For a third, I can't touch 1.2% rental yield in SoCal these days (maybe 2009, but not 2015), and would need to put something like 40% down (or LTV over my entire portfolio if HELOC used for cash purchase) to even cash flow (which is the price I would pay short term for that "insurance") or accept negative cash flow (definite no-go for me) for that 1 year + 1 day.

Keep in mind that many courts may not even evict a tenant that you have habitually accepted late rent from if you decide that you are fed up and want them evicted for late rent . . . this is because you have gave the tenant a reason to rely on you accepting late rent in the past and so, caused confusion.