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Rental Housing Market Holding Up Well – At Least In the Lower Rent Ranges

Dennis Norman

Recently HUD published a report, “U.S. Rental Housing Characteristics: Supply, Vacancy, and Affordability“, which was packed with data about the rental housing market.  The data in the report clearly illustrates that the rental market is holding up pretty well, at least in the lower rent price-ranges, while the for-sale housing market has been getting [...]

Unconventional thoughts on being a landlord

Shae Bynes, Good Faith Investing

I don’t blog much about my landlord experiences, but a conversation I recently had with an investor from St. Louis (with 30+ years of real estate investing experience) inspired this post. We were talking about our philosophy regarding landlording and it was a breath of fresh air to speak with [...]

New law gives tenants in foreclosed homes additional protection

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

If you buy a foreclosed home that has an existing tenant in it you need to be sure you are aware of and comply with  provisions of the “Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009″.  The act went into effect on May 20, 2009 and provides the following protections for the existing tenant:

For [...]

HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher Program alert…

By: Dennis Norman

 A couple of weeks ago I made a post about renting property under Housing Choice Voucher program and offered it as something you may want to consider.  Included in my post was reference to the fact that in order for your property to be eligible for this program it had to meet some basic [...]

Subsidized Rentals to Low-Income Families

By: Dennis Norman

You may already be renting your homes to one or more of the 1.95 million families that receive rental assistance under HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher program, however if not you may want to consider doing so.

What is the Housing Choice Voucher program?  This is a program that was established in 1974 and known as “Section 8″ to [...]