Here in Sacramento, we offered assistance to the working ladies in addition to adding deterrents to their customers.

Any major work like boilers or massive apartment cleanout gets charged additionally.

Additionally, the $12K in unrecaptured depreciation will be taxed at 25%.

So far, I was able to put in 1 short sale deal, but found out the bank won't finance it due some unpermitted addition.

Yes, probably uncooperative junior lien holders, or the bank saw that the seller had additional assets or a good job such that they could effectively go after them on a deficiency judgment, versus the SS where the seller was probably negotiating hard to be fully released from the debt.

If it's a really great deal go ahead and lock it up with as cheap earnest money as possible now to get rid of competitors so it changes to pending status.I can guarantee others are looking at it right now and running the research you are as well.Get it locked up cheap and then do most of your research in your due diligence period.If you find you do not want the deal you can always assign it for a fee if allowed or bring in a partner to help with additional costs that is discovered or you can negotiate the price down further.I see it everyday where an investor does too much upfront work and do not get it under contract and lose out to someone else.

There are tons of additional threads and setting up new entities if your equity exceeds $250k in one, raising capital, utilizing blanket and other insurance to protect you from claims, keeping debt on product to discourage suits, using trusts to hide assets, etc.

So, putting in an upgraded set of appliances will likely not return anything additional to putting in a basic set of appliances.

if i have the space and opening, i always provide DW. most people these days are coming from their homes, where they HAD a DW. cant tell u how many times i have heard "i will not rent a house that has no DW". and besides, it's $280. come on, that's cheap.GD - i always add it. it costs me $85 and takes 30 mins. i get the loud ones so they dont forget to turn it off.

Zoning is very on edge about building additional houses.