Just to paint a picture of that unit its needs a lot of cleaning and the dog smell is terrible.

I take great care of my buildings and market them as per allergy free, and attract tenants that don’t like pets (smell, noise, etc. ).

The 10% is important, and lease options seem to have a bit of a bad smell about them these days....Am looking to generate cash flow as well, without the hassles of landlording (have been burnt there before!)

Drafting my business plan has forced me to stop and take a look at myself (I haven't done this much even though I know its vital - get so consumed by life, sometimes I forget to smell the coffee so to speak). 

The body was un-related to the fire and the poor fellow had been there for nearly five years - corner says he died in June 2010 (suicide was the cause put forward) and somehow none of the tenants smelled the decomposing body during that first summer.I promptly called the owner and offered to buy the property - hoping it was sufficiently damaged to warrant a teardown.  

You are going to a meeting not a battle.

It goes on with every business, even the auto industry uses Wholesalers, if I were are realtor, I wouldn't fight it, it's a loosing battle, I'd try to benefit from it, by becoming a broker, then I'd rent a desk to you and have you wholesale for me.

Elisabeth, The military move out provision is not really for the tenant's benefit whatsoever as they already have that right legally regardless of what you say, so it is really just if you get orders to move back you can kick them out no harm no foul. 

Doesn't matter whether previous owner forwarded them to the bank you are buying from: That's thier battle. 

1-2000 positive cash flow per month on 24 units smells like a disaster.