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I was just thinking about the first deal I did a couple of years ago and how it came together.
It was an investor that had bought about 40 homes back in like 2010 and never paid taxes on any of them so it was...
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Landlords have a noble mission. We provide safe and clean housing to our tenants, keep homes maintained and reasonably respond to our tenants requests. We provide housing options so that the government doesn’t have to...
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The NEW lease-option design...As I understand it, one of the requirements of the new Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, birthed from the Dodd-Frank legislation, is that ANY lender in an installment sale has to verify...
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They would be an absolute except a few people get lucky and put everything they have into a rental property and nothing goes wrong for a year or two, giving them time to build up cash reserves. Then again a few peopl...