Acquiring occupied rental properties

[Nestor Rosero]

How do you handle acquiring a rental property that already has long term Sec 8 tenants who’s rent covers beyond the cost to finance the property.  would like to acquire and rehab the property to force appreciation, but don’t know how to address it with the tenants.  

[Jonathan Taylor Smith]

Every occupied property I've obtained I've gotten it vacant ASAP - with one exception, and that tenant wanted to buy the property post-rehab or I'd have gotten them out also. Rehabbing an occupied property is a nightmare that I'll avoid like the plague going forward. I'm clear with tenants that I'm buying to increase value and rents, but I aid as best possible to ease the relocation, even helping as a Realtor.