I speak Spanish fairly well, I studied it up until my senior year of college, although I am a bit rusty, I can mostly manage.I was considering purchasing either 2 properties or a duplex-style house in which I can live and rent the other side, either long-term or short-term. 

A couple have called the police to see if it's legal for me to mail to them. :-) I just tell the cops that I buy properties, I send out a 1,000 mailers at a time and they go away.If I had 100's of leads coming in every day, as our friend Jerryll indicates he has, so many of those would fall through the cracks that I wouldn't know where to start and stop.

This all points to less competition for home shoppers, but make no mistake, the housing market remains clearly tilted in favor of sellers,” says Zillow senior economist Jeff Tucker.

Nadia Evangelou, a senior economist and head of forecasting at NAR, said 9 million homebuyers had been priced out of the market.

We called the local police department to file a report and asked Police if they can call tenants to return my personal property.  

watch mortgage payment as % of income as interest rise, housing supply increase now that many new constructions are going up, the bottom of the bell curves connecting the millennial and gen X (less demand for housing), and senior bell curve (more death, freeing up more existing homes for sale).

And anti police by the way.

Hello all-I am looking at a few properties, one in particular is fully remodeled, has tenants but after asking questions about the area on a facebook group I am told that gunshots are heard in the area and police are present often.Is this an area where as an investor one sees opportunity with a unit thats fully renovated and a start to beginning to gentrify an area or an area where you'd rather avoid until more people jump into that shipAny advice would be helpful & appreciatedCarlos

There’s also been discussions around fees to cover public services like the police force that is used to break parties.  

Normally I'd say talk to legal aid first, but if she cuts the padlock and the landlord calls the police, the police will ask for the signed eviction from a judge.