It's really disappointing to host dishonest people but it's an unfortunate reality you have to accept.

The agent, a fiery German lady going after the owner, berated the owner, threatened to sue him if he doesn't accept us as buyers, and the deal was signed off that night.An explanation.

You'll probably want to do some more digging on these tenants before accepting them.6 adults and 4 kids in a 4/2 home is a red flag itself.

Land trusts aren't really for protection, but anonymity and then the LLC provides the protection (to some degree, depending on what happens).

Tricky, to get people to move in, it would need to be accessible to transportation, town...but the city has not accepted them so much legally as a living space.  

So if we lose power, the house doesn't drop into freezing temps for at least 2 days from a 60 degree set point.If you see a bunch of outages each year, then looking at a propane generator install would be a good idea.

If you wouldn't accept the same application for a new resident, would you "let it slide" with this resident? 

you might go and see 25 properties and make 3 offers and get 0 accepted. 

Fortunately for us, our offer was accepted immediately.This was at a time when we were competing against buyers who were scarfing up Cambridge property with cash offers well above asking price.

My husband and I had an offer accepted on our first duplex.