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If only diagnosis were as simple as taking a heart rate, BP, temperature, and respiration rate.

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I’d cry for the deported, not for the housing market. Deporting people (who might have worked here for decades and kept their noses clean other than immigration violations) to face violence at the hands of bad governments, gangs, cartel operatives, etc, would be a crime against humanity.

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Actually, NYC itself is popping, it’s the ‘burbs and rural areas that are slooooow.

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Well if they, for example, get arrested for something bad, they wouldn’t be employed anymore either.

I hope you do mean “convicted.” Any employer who would fire someone based on arrest (i.e. some idiot cop’s suspicion, not proven in court) deserves to be sued out of existence.

Can’t speak to CA, but I think in many states (incl NY), arrest records are confidential and closed in case of acquittal or dropping of charges. As it should be. Unless it was high-profile enough to make the media, of course, which most arrests are not.

But, in any case, is there any law requiring police to inform employers if someone has been arrested? I think not — that would be a violation of privacy. Assuming someone doesn’t spend more than a night in jail, how would anyone be the wiser?

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If they need to move in ASAP, other option is to take cash. Nothing wrong with that assuming it’s signed for properly by both parties to avoid disputes later.

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One of the best tenants I’ve had was a freelancer. We talked about what he did, I was convinced that he actually knew what he was doing, and we signed a month-to-month lease on trial basis after calling his references.

No employment verification requested, and I think I did the guy (as well as myself) a favor by being flexible.

Didn’t do a background check either. I feel that anyone who’s paid their debt to society shouldn’t be under disability for life. I did Google his name to see if anything particularly heinous came up though.

BTW – the hole in your idea of large firms doing background checks, is what if something happened AFTER s/he was hired?

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There’s a third option. If the tenant doesn’t want to set up DD and you have an account at a nearby bank, train them to deposit the check. Give them 12 pre-printed deposit tickets to do so.

Worked for one tenant for about two years. If she missed a deposit, she got an email, and the problem was corrected within a day or so.

Credit check? What’s that? Never done one. Never had a particularly problematic tenant either, other than one that brought roaches to the party.

Check references, Google, and public social media. Almost better than a credit check in amount of data that can be gleaned. Especially call the references and talk a bit. It’s hard to get 3-4 people to lie in unison.

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So? We get to pay for Mississippi 🙂

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If Trump wins the popular, I hope to see him run, fair and square. If the public elects the son of a whore, the US deserves him.

Only glad I’m a dual citizen. Watching the US fuck up while sipping a beer abroad will be fun.

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Nothing wrong with working from home or being freelance. I didn’t know there was a legal obligation to work in an office cubicle under artificial light from 8-6.

The GOP? A lot of good people were Republicans before the party got taken over by nutters.

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FIH — Hillary is not a technocrat/professor. That would be Elizabeth Warren. She’s a political hanger-on/hack who got where she was on her husband’s coattails.

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TBH, for a condo, you don’t need management parasites even if you live much further away. Just…
(1) Go through the place with a fine-tooth comb before renting it. Replace anything that may break.
(2) Have the numbers of tradesmen on hand (electrician, plumber, handyman).
(3) Rent to tenants who need you more than you need them.

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(1) 1 month deposit
(2) 12 month lease by default, can negotiate the rate for a shorter lease. If the tenant chooses to break the lease and gives a few weeks’ notice, let ’em. No reason to keep an unhappy tenant in place.

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All this being said, if we have a GOP win this year, I hope that Mel “Skell” will be kicked out and replaced with a hard-nosed chief of FHFA. Putting a cold-hearted accountant like Ed DeMarco back in power would be ideal.

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QM isn’t going anywhere, fortunately. Hard to lend on a primary to fucking scum whose DTI ratio is out of whack.

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