A vague foreboding that it could all go terribly wrong, that you never really know, that one day we could get a call that the whole building had gone up in smoke, or a giant sinkhole had opened underneath it, or a particularly bad windstorm had flattened it, or bad wiring caused one of the tenants to be electrocuted, or, or, or...We are all afraid of failure, and worst of all, failure right at the beginning of something, a failure that completely exposed our incompetence for all the unkind people we all know to laugh at behind our backs.

The other unit isn’t in terrible shape but it does need some TLC and would require some time and effort to get it rent ready again.

If you insist on doing this at least do a background check to make sure they do not have any prior evictions or terrible credit.

Or else you open yourself to assumptions by folks.All buyers are left to think is the inside is truly terrible, tenant-owner relationship is bad, or something else which signals this is a distressed property.  

I figured I need a one year track record on paying the loan as a rental to accomplish this.Two very valuable prices of info you all have given me:(1) it's actually a terrible investment cashflow wise.

What I need to do is dive back into that material and re learn it because this park is so hodge podged together and is actually more “shacks” then mobile homes with a 3 plex and and large double wide where the owner lives currently so their book keeping is terrible and the broker already discussed this with me.

Truly good BRRRs and Flix and Flip deals aren't terribly easy to find.

I almost made a terrible decision based off of emotion and desperation (WONT happen again).Does anyone have any strategies for finding deals in this current market in PA?

Most people move in and out at the beginning/end of the month.When I was younger I was in a terrible apartment and I did a mid-month lease, but I paid up the full month at the previous place, and the full month at the new place.

Should be no surprise that they typically get a terrible response rate.