I am renting out a 3 bedroom apartment on Chicago's Southwest side. The steps in the tenancy process are:
     1) application (personal info, current address, former, job, a personal reference) and last 2 paystubs
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Hello everyone, I'm not holding myself to any specific area to invest since my W-2 job moves me around the country. Not sure if this matters but my goal is to own apartments. I have a list of cities on spreadsheet but...

Hello, my name is Kale Johnson and I'm a young aspiring real estate investor out of California looking to start my journey of obtaining cash-flowing LTRs. I talked just recently with a trusted broker I know out of the...

Ever since becoming a landlord, I have struggled with the concept of rent increases. The short story is I haven't done them. The longer story is that is coming back and biting me in the backside now. Expenses have gon...

I think there are some initial signs that the Austin area market is starting to change.For the second time in 2016, single-family home sales volume declined in Central Texas, down 3.1% year-over-year from July 2015. I...

Have a nice little 3/2 on the market for a few weeks, about the lowest price in 5 mile radius. Lots of contacts, 20+ showings, 3 approved applications and yet still not rented. Talked to my leasing coordinator from th...

I think that over time my business as a real estate agent will shift more and more towards the online part. At least for finding new buyers. I saw stats that 70% of buyers start their search online.

I do business in ...

I've been loaning businesses rehab funds for their projects and was wondering if my business activity requires a licence in Oregon state.  I'm in Washington and so is the business I loan to however the projects are in...

Are there any tax implications if you get a line of credit or refinance to pull cash out of a property to invest in another? From my understanding, pulling out cash through a refinance would have tax implications. Can...

The economy seems to be on fragile ground based on this "unexposed" information about the Fed repo. How are you preparing for a potential downturn?