My partner was approved for a home loan but he has a charged off account his ex wife’s put in his name and failed to make the payments.

This fails the 1% and 2% test on evaluating if a home could be a good investment.

Assuming competence all around, generally loan officers are completely indifferent to who the SSP is, but when that assumption fails we get very picky.4) No yelling at me if, in spite of all that, stupid frustrating things are introduced into the transaction.

I've seen backflow preventers on whole buildings that fail and discharge into a indirect waste recptor. or in some cases they are doing their job and theres a underlying issue for backflow. 

@Joe Smith if they have failed to provide financials requested, that’s an easy out.

The number of votes is NOT a way to see how credible anyone here is.Number of votes is just a mere popularity contest.Not because 15 clowns agree with you does it mean that what ever you say is correct.So many people here fail and are struggling because they listen to others here without any kind of validation other than how popular they are on here.Absolutely use this channel to learn and gain knowledge.

A/C issues are typically due to neglect like failing to clean the coils or change the air filter.

We recently had a 2-year old condenser fail. 

The property management company is more than happy to comply, and average service call has cost me over $300.00 no matter what the reason.The property is aging, therefore there are a few failing parts, but that aspect notwithstanding, every job is costing us twice as much as what it used to cost historically, ~6 years back.I am interested in hearing the experience of other landlords in the area: is PDX area really getting that expensive?

In my case, if I started with real estate, and I honestly don’t know how I would have done that, because I needed the capital and I didn’t have it initially, but I would have not been nearly as effective at deploying capital, I would have failed, I would have learned from it, and then ultimately I would’ve been doing something else.