@Scott Robinson At least in Massachusetts, the seller would go to court and file a "petition to partition".If successful, the court could order one party to buy the other out, or for the property to be sold and to proceeds to be divided.TX may (or may not) have similar laws, but you'll probably want to buy an hour of an attorney's time to figure out which way to go and whether the juice is worth the squeeze.

I was just trying to save time.Assuming you are belly to belly with a tired landlord seller off market?

Get the creative juices flowing!

BellI love this area as far as single family rentals and I would consider Multi Family if they became available.

I’m in Oklahoma, where evangelical oil barons have sucked the juice out of the land and turned the area from a grape into a raisin.

The scope resulted in our discovery of improper pluming, cast iron belly and a broken mainline.

It's never offended me because I retired very early into the under belly of this type of REI, whereas those accusing me of being one worked until forced out into menial part-time work to just get by in their golden years.My favorite

@Alicia Bell,I recommend that you Google "Georgia landlord tenant handbook " print it out and read it.

@Tom BellI always tell people to get a 5% down conventional loan.

I still do regular "retail" business ( about 50/50) and enjoy that as well but investing really gets my juices flowing.