We are in the process if rehabbing a building and I keep smelling pot from the neighbors in a separate building.

There is a very likely outcome that you will be holding a note with an uncooperative homeowner/squatter, you will get to pay attorney/court fees and insurance costs while receiving no payments through a long, dragged out FC process, and then the pot of gold at the end 18 months later is a trashed house that is worth half what you hoped and you will have to pay up the 2 years of unpaid property taxes to boot.Just remember, there is a reason these existing lenders are dumping the note rather than doing a workout themselves.

Now mind you they were all likely illegal operations.While its still a federal crime, I will not allow growing pot, smoking pot, or possessing pot in my rentals and I voted yes on 64. 

The broker is refusing to sign or voluntarily release the buyer from the BRA.

@Ron Drake Were pot committed.It would be a very anticlimactic blog if I quit now.

In California, you would be very hard pressed to find a judge that would allow you to enforce a "no marijuana/no drug" clause in your lease for pot (though I've seen it happen, once).

There is a light at he end of the tunnel and hopefully a pot of gold. 

I play the market all the time but I am young and far from wealthy so I'm a gambler and stick to options and go in and out very fast i have gone in and out of higher and lower tax brackets over night.... the market could crash this year and many say we are in for an earnings recession and in my view it could be any day bc if you just google S&P500 and look at the chart in max view you will see from as far back as it will show up up up up down down up up up up down down up up up up etc...... we are due for a major correction soon although i think markets will rally some more this year and this coming earnings will generally be poor but not as poor as predicted so the market will be looking good and the FED will raise rates at the end of the summer than yea after the holidays things will be super slow higher rates higher costs and with the oil prices and political movements more volatile than shares of tesla maybe yea a big crash and some people will lose it all while some people will be buying it all waiting for the next upswing its the cycle of life...Craziest thing i ever read about the stock market was that SEC halted trading on a bunch of medical marijuana stocks that were trading on the OTC market and i said WAIT WTF theres public pot corps lol i mean who would buy a medical marijuana stock... forget cooking the books what happens when the DEA burns the books so how does that work.... so aslong as there are people dumb enough to invest publicly in a company that is operating in a risky federally illegal business than yea the stock market can crash any day of the week for just about any reason...

He left voluntarily within just a few days and didn't break anything on the way out.

I see this is an opportunity to tighten lease, even have her voluntarily cancel lease and sign that she is staying on a day to day agreement.