What are the consequences of selling that property you have held for 15 years?  You may walk away with some cash, assuming you haven’t refinanced the property.  If you have refinanced the property and taken cash out, you may find yourself owing more in taxes than you get when you sell. By the time you’ve...

Last week, I started a series of articles about things I’ve changed my mind about over the years; as in, used to see them as absolute right/wrong issues, and now think of them as, well, at least 49 shades of gray. If I were a politician, this would be called flip flopping. But I’m not,...

If you own rentals in Ohio, or plan to, you need to take moment and find out about a proposed law that will force you to let certain tenants out of a lease without paying. If this proposal becomes law, any tenant would be able to terminate their lease simply by showing that they planned...

Which, if you missed it, was to repeal a never-enacted rate cut to FHA buyers for mortgage insurance premiums. In his last days in office, president Obama issued an order to cut the annual mortgage insurance premium from .85% of the loan balance to .60%. This rate cut didn’t go into effect until January 27th,...

 Like a lot of seasoned investors, I have a LOT of opinions about the “right” way to do things. In fact, I’m afraid that, once I form a particular belief about something, I might be even MORE likely to stick to it like white on rice than the average person, ‘cause I’ve been around the...