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While the stock markets continue to rally, [also, the real estate market], due in large part to the Fed’s continued QE bond and mortgage buying, there are some troubling signs in the economic data. If we drill down a little deeper, we find

Every once in a while it’s appropriate to devote a column to young people trying to get started. An adult grandchild reading this might be willing to engage in a conversation that needs to be started.

Q:  My tenant is two months behind on his rent, he told me if I try to evict him he will file bankruptcy to stop the eviction, can he do that? A:  Yes, but only for

Question 1: When I have many rental applicants for a unit, I will select one as the primary ‘winner’ of the unit, but let at least two to three others know they are acceptable but are on a wait list. In those circumstances, I would like to

Owning rental properties that produce income is without question a very profitable and worthwhile achievement.  Most folks, who buy properties and stick with it, end up a whole lot richer than those who

In an October 2010 Digest, we cited new Social Security statistics and characterized recipients as “on the dole.” Our feedback was inundated with angry e-mails. We published many of them over the next two days… Then on October 21, Porter responded in his Friday Digest with the following discussion of how Social Security’s

The next generation of renters is equipped with more access to information than ever before.  Recent survey data published by ForRent.com, sister site of Homes.com, sheds light on what renters are looking for and the methods they’re using to find it. With more than 8,000 responses, the month-long survey revealed

Question One: We are thinking of re-piping our building. I know that this will be a capital improvement. Is there a way of passing this cost to my tenants? I have a rent controlled building in the City of Los Angeles.

Hello everybody. When negotiating purchase agreements of for very large apartment complexes or transactions including a single sale of multiple apartment buildings, buyers and sellers (or their brokers) often start out exchanging

Proposition 13 was an amendment to the California Constitution (embodied in Article 13A) by means of the initiative process and approved overwhelmingly by California voters on