You can not partner with relatives or have them do any work on or stay in your properties. 

While traveling back and forth to Philadelphia, I stayed in a rental in downtown and met a real estate agent in passing.

To stay away from that, I've kept it to two, up front fees.

Determine how much money would be needed to handle each risk, and determine if you have sufficient liquidity / cash flow to ensure you can “stay in the game”.This is of course in addition to all normal “due diligence”, financial forecasting, etc. 

Most of my clients buying STNL or MTNL stay in certain price ranges.

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Extensions are likely granted, if needed.You will receive $3k relocation assistance at the end ( unless you have other liens, back due water/sewer/HOA etc. ) You can also stay in the home until the sale closes, which gives you at least a few months payment free to be able to figure out where you will relocate.

If one of them are staying than we keep the security and tell them that they need to figure it out themselves.

The former owner sold to me because I run the community farm and he wants to insure the farm stays active.

So I guess it seems that it is best for me to wait until i get my H1B in that way I know I can stay for at least 6 years before it expires.