San Bernardino to file bankruptcy 3rd city in CA to file. Is this a trend?

here is the link:

http://news.terra.com/san-bernardino-becomes-third-california-city-seeking-bankruptcy,4ae2317579678310VgnVCM3000009acceb...

I know that opening a new line of credit will hurt my FICO in the short-run, but will raising my credit limit on an existing credit card have the same effect? Would it count as "new credit"?

I need some suggestions on pitching investors.  Here in my resort community we have plenty of ma and pop hotels ~ over the past two years my small business has almost doubled in sales.  These local hotels are getting ...

Consumer lending platforms, also known as crowdfunding, or peer-to-peer lenders, have inundated the consumer lending space since 2008. Although the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has wreaked havoc on the ...

I'm about to enter into a contract on a property that's currently rented to Section 8 tenants. This will be my first Sec8 rental property - Is there a "standard" lease typically used with Sec8 tenants or is the TAR le...

When a syndication or fund wants to buy an apartment building, for, let's say $10M, they have two basic options to finance it: 
- Debt
- Or Equity
Equity is expensive, as investors demand high returns. It takes on ...

After months ... well, maybe a year, of lurking, I've submitted my "introduction" post and made a few other small contributions to some of the fora.

Now I've sat down to raise the questions responsible for my being h...

Good day all,I am looking at putting together a list of ways that people have gone about forcing equity/value in their properties.  To start the ball rolling, I like adding a unit/income stream where there wasn't one ...

We bought, rehabbed and rented 7 SFH's this year, which is by far our most productive year in RE. We have it down now to where we can do a pretty full rehab in 30 - 45 days.

I didn't expect that we would do so many ...

After a over 200 calls discussions with investors via phone calls, I discovered that a notable portion of my time is spent reprogramming bad money habits created by the way we were raised. Further compounding this pro...