All Forum Posts by: John Rooster

Huh? Not sure what this means. The sale does not void their lease. Did you not get a copy of the lease?

A serious suggestion, though not necessarily a good suggestion, is to ask them if they have any friends with a job that want to rent the lower unit, presumably the friends would be ok with traffic and pot smell. Then jack up the rent of the upstairs tenant when it comes time to renew lease. And hopefully the new downstairs tenant would out last the old tenant. 26 days till retail pot sales in CO.

You could. Please try it for a month for 30 units at varied locations around the County and let us know if you got anything else done the entire month

It sounds like an over zealous inspector to me. At this point the landlord has not been charged with anything. Yet the inspector is pimping this story out to the news media.

I would require a Special Warranty Deed with an exception for the property taxes, do my own title search, and maybe have some sort of escrow arrangement to hold the funds until I was able to verify the Deed was recorded ahead of any liens, but other than that I would be fine with those terms. I don't see this as a big deal, as long as he is disclosing that it is subject to a bunch of back taxes. I am guessing that there are few if any Banks that lend on $22,000 houses in Detroit, and that buying subject to a bunch of property taxes is attractive to some buyers, because it increases their leverage.

The buyers were either crazy or looking to get out of the contract. Or both.

I would replace all the smoke detectors and the CO detector. If that does not work, I would tell the tenant it is their problem. Someone may be pranking your tenant. Bing annoy-a-tron

@Brandon Turner

I think I have the same problem. I use Firefox with windows 7

It was probably a 2nd position lien bought subject to a large mortgage

If one fills the pool with water, will it settle back down as the ground water recedes during a dry spell?

There is an element of truth in this, but it is disingenuous with regard to the vast majority of illegal immigrant situations. Did you think we were too dim to discern the difference? Illegal immigrants can be divided into two categories. The far smaller category are those that entered the Country legally, but over stayed their Visas and are now in the County illegally, what you say about them being in the U.S. without proper documentation being a civil penalty is correct. The other, far larger category of illegal immigrants entered the U.S. illegally. Entering the County is a crime under Federal law, criminal penalties are outlined in Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code, "Improper Entry by Alien".

I don't screen for whether someone is an illegal immigrant. Because I do not have to. Firstly my craigslist ads are pretty intimidating, so anyone will any 'issues' are usually discouraged from calling me in the first place. But should someone call on behalf of their friend/parents/whatever, I don't return their calls, they are usually a waste of time or the prospective tenant doesn't speak English. Which gets me to my main point, which is that I will not rent to anyone that does not speak English. I would be ok renting to an illegal immigrant that speaks English but not a U.S. Citizen that does not speak English.