{"id":305,"date":"2004-06-03T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:28","slug":"book-log-how-to-buy-manage-rental-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; How to Buy &#038; Manage Rental Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>How to Buy &#038; Manage Rental Properties<\/u> by Irene and Mike Milin.<\/p>\n<p>Some good info, but a lot of it is out of date.  Written in the 80&#8217;s when interest rates were 10-12%, and you could do things like assumable mortgages.  And people couldn&#8217;t afford to buy houses on their own.<\/p>\n<p>They advocate finding meek tenants who won&#8217;t assert their rights.  Gives me a bit of the heebie-jeebies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Buy &#038; Manage Rental Properties by Irene and Mike Milin. Some good info, but a lot of it is out of date. Written in the 80&#8217;s when interest rates were 10-12%, and you could do things like assumable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=305\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}