Sometimes with larger homes you can rent rooms to seniors, college students, etc.

Buyer is relocating to a new job at local college with income 50% less than previous job.

As a Realtor, one would be working and spending time, gas and tolls showing properties and shooting emails/texts and the customer is not willing to sign a representation agreement and become a CLIENT.

In almost every case the bank will pay the property taxes because it will come before the 1st mortgage and stick around even after foreclosure.The listing agent needs to include the $70k as a HUD expense for the short sale, or call the Customer Service Department and request they pay off the taxes.The listing agent is probably misguiding their client, because the property tax is part of the short sale so the seller should not be accepting reponsibility for the tax lien just by accepting your offer.

I'll try VM options later to test whether there is really a difference, but I'm determined to go with a service at first (IOW, please don't tell me to use GV and send everything to VM ;)I''ve researched a bunch of different services, but actual recommendations from real customers in our business are hard to come by.So, if you've used an answering service to field calls for your business would care to share your experience (good or bad), I'd love to hear it.My plan is to have the AS collect very basic info at first, basically asking for name, contact info and the address of the property so that I can do some research and call them back ASAP.So what's the skinny on answering services?

Here is one of our kitchens we did in Chicago. This was a 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath house with an attached 2 car garage. It took us about 5 months close to close on this house.

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In the meantime, I have been going through all the old podcasts to educate myself on what others have done right.As far as my own real estate background, I worked on some of my family's properties in College Park.

I actually have a close friend (who's still in college) who owns two rental properties and manages them alongside his longtime girl friend who just happened to graduate from Marquette University with a Bachelors in Business and a whole bunch of other degrees, and they pitched an idea to me to start some sort of real estate business.

In tax lien investing, the laws, rules, customs and nuances of proceedure for the given state are the critical pieces of the puzzle.

I've heard and read negative things about hudzu customer service, but isn't this laws against blatant false advertisement?