I feel like one thing that I commonly hear when someone is house hacking and fixing up the place themselves is that it always takes longer than expected.

Hey everyone,My name is Hadar Cohen, and I'm a new foreign real estate investor.I recently received a loan of $120,000 in my home country at a 6% interest rate, giving me the full amount needed to purchase a property in the U.S.I understand that it’s common practice to finance a property by taking out an 80% loan from a hard money lender at around 11% interest.

For example currently I have a tenant who has a delinquent balance because of employment difficulties.

Steve: If you are going to bid on an Ohio Common Pleas Court  foreclosure, the process is pretty safe because the foreclosing lender has to include a "PJR" which is actually a "Preliminary Judicial Report" which is a title report and include a commitment for title insurance should the bidder be successful and the property to be conveyed.This differs from a liquidation auction by a lender, private auctioneer, receiver (other than an actual foreclosure case) where you might be successful but the property has pre existing liens that don't get swept away by the foreclosure case.For your first one of these, get a lawyer to advise you.

Can I ban smoking in the building, including common areas, mid-lease?

Once you move up to Multi-unit units you now add provisions upkeep of all common/shared spaces.   

Idk the models but each will be separately metered and you will need a fourth common meter also. 

I would say my situation is unique or special but I'm sure it is more common than I know.

Thank you all.Tanya BRRR's are pretty common here.

Beyond the formal checklists: no evictions, 3-4x income to rent, prior landlord references, employment checks; I would also look at things like responsiveness to communication when we are setting showing, were they on time to showing, did they look me in the eye and shake my hand, did they show up to showing high?