If I buy an apartment building, who keeps the cash reserves?

[Todd Moriarty]

I'm looking at different buildings right now and was told by a reliable source that, if I buy the building, I get the owner's cash reserves.  That doesn't sound right to me.  I know I get the tenant's security deposits, but the reserves?

Some owner's are including their cash reserves in the profit and loss statement for the building.  If I don't keep that money, then why include it in the statement and disclose it to me? 

[Austin H.]

No one in their right mind would hand over their cash reserves. It's shown in the P&L statement so you can see where the money is going on and out at.