Can landlords really decide one way or another- if their tenants can smoke or not?
It really depends on the area where your units are located, but more landlords are banning cigarettes from their units.
There are a lot of reasons for this, of course.
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Will this Section 8 Controversy ever clear up?
By now you've probably read the news coming out of San Francisco concerning the uproar about the poor being moved into predominately middle class neighborhoods via Section 8.
Influx of black renters raises tension in Bay Area
I'm not going to sugarcoat this.
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Couples going through divorce always fight over real estate.
That's because their houses are usually their most valuable assets- until now.
What's different now is how they're fighting about it.
It's no longer who gets the house, but in 2009, it's who doesn't get the house.
With so many homeowners becoming upside down in their mortgages, all they want is out.
In Breaking Up Is Harder To Do After Housing Fall, we're taken along as one couple from Georgia fights over their million dollar house.
Gary Nickelson, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers sums it up best. "Now we fight about who gets stuck with the dead cow."
Could there be some real estate investing opportunities from divorced real estate homeowners somewhere over the horizon?
As we reach the bottom of this real estate cycle will it be possible to do deals with some of these people?
It certainly can give us something to think about as we plan our real estate investing for the new year.
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Real estate investing basics and ROI (return on investment) are covered superbly in an article by Jason Hartman of the Platinum Properties Investor Network. It's called ROI Some People Don't Get It.
In fact, this article is a comprehensive lesson on how you actually make money in real estate, unlike a lot of the hype out there which tells you to just count on appreciation.
He covers a lot and that's why it's a long article; worth printing out. And it's all free.
This is one of the ways you can pick up some very excellent investing info without paying expensive gurus for it.
Don't get me wrong. Jason is not saying appreciation and cash flow are not important, he's simply telling it like it really is.
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