A newbie got a question here, so thanks in advance for all answers.I am curious if rent paid by tenant is subject to sales tax.  In other words, when a landlord collects rent, does he/she has to cut part of it for sal...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chained-cpi-inflation-measure-means-103000740.html

It looks like one of the changes to likely come out of the fiscal cliff deal is that we will be changing the way that inflation is calc...

I ran into a group of city planners and politicians today.  They were celebrating the success of the Cultural Trail.  I wrote a quick and short blog post about it.  Enjoy! http://www.fshouses.com/the-cultural-trail-ma...

For those of you that own multi-family housing, do you belong to any rental housing associations. I have been a member of a local housing association and found that they helped provide useful updates on landlord-tena...

Your Word Should Be Your Promise

I firmly believe in and live by the statement; A Man Is Only As Good As His Word.

I am old fashion - attribute this to my age and those with whom I associated and were my mentors. Pe...

when you go after the banks......

http://www.wikileaks.com/

I'm quite shocked (and stunned) when I see how much is taxed on to my guest. Airbnb, for their fee,  seems to tack on about 14%, then City of Seattle(lodging tax) tacks on 16%, plus another $4 per night. Then Airbnb s...

Hello BP Community!As always I have been soaking up the podcast from BP every chance I get and an interesting question always comes up. It's an easy question but also missed by people starting out. That question is Wh...

No matter how frustrated you get with government interference and non-paying renters, this is not acceptable.https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Albany-landlord-tied-up-evicted-sleeping-15972981.php.

just read an article that said Foxconn is pivoting.. instead of heavy duty manufactoring and 13k jobs.. they are now talking about more R and D and about half the jobs or less.. I wonder how many developers speculated...