As profiled in an article on CNN Money (http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/30/real_estate/FHA-loans/index.htm), the FHA is actually taking initiative to make it MORE DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN MORTGAGE LOANS. Even folks with perf...

Hi everyone,I am a senior in university and my final finance class requires us to write a thesis type paper (research paper with "significant original contribution" to the topic) and so I was hoping to spend this time...

What happened to the basic understanding of supply and demand? I didn’t grow up in a financially savvy household, but even as a kid I remember having a distinct awareness and understanding of supply and demand and it...

Im seeing a few deals here and there in the mobile home arena. Im curious about the expenses attached to mobile home parks.
In multi-family its safe to say that 50% is a good number, but Ive been seeing 30-40 % expen...

I just closed on a short-saled triplex, that is full of tenants. Sounds good at first. However, at the closing, the previous owner said that there is one tenant that only paid half the rent for January and has not p...

I'm in MA, and my property has oil. Typical 1900s style 2 family with dumpy - if any- insulation!  It's set about 300 feet back from the natural gas line on the street, and it order to bring NG in it'd be $7K to jus r...

We are about to close on a duplex in Alabama that will need a full renovation.  One of the sides is unoccupied with fire damage, the other side has month to month hoarder tenants... two sisters.  Right now they are be...

The tenant in one of my houses (so far very responsible, pays on time) wants her boyfriend to be able to live with her for a while.  She volunteered the information, and he filled out a rental application, and I've ru...

I am in the Los Angeles market and buy/rehab/sell many properties on an annual basis. Lately I have been selling some as fixer opportunities without doing any work on them. The problem that I have encountered recently...