You provide the valuable service of delivering to them this property that they can profit from.

Push a button, get a ride, watch a movie, deliver groceries and alcohol.

Anyone staying longer than that must submit to a full background check to be added to the lease.If you don't want this guy there, and your lease provides an out, simply state that the boyfriend is not allowed to stay, that if you find that he is staying you will deliver a notice to cure or quit and then follow up if when you discover the boyfriend still there.If you do decide to add him (he's going to be there whether you add him or not) then absolutely do a full background check and credit check.

I read "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" bt Ramit Sethi a while ago and thought it was a great primer on personal finance - common sense and well delivered.

Been an owner for 4-5 years, learned quite a few things already, among which is that a commercial kitchen is not something to be made or modified lightly - it has to be properly designed and properly made in order to function well.So I have this retail store of about 1100 sqft that someone wants to take for a small coffee shop with the ability to bake.My question is where do I start searching for someone to design/compute small walk-in cooler, grease trap, vent-a-hood, stove and HVAC on top of that so all this could become useable without anyone getting burned.From my past experience I have local mexican crews who can do any and all of the listed things and they'd do them relatively well except they won;t ever be designed to actually work well together.On the other end of the spectrum I've worked with american general contractors and they tend to cost 2-3 times the Mexican crews and, at least in my case, ended up delivering about same end result (in all fairness it was only kitchen remodeling, not design from ground up; but statement stands valid and I was able to later do almost the same at literally third of the cost).Your expertise is appreciated.

He's an experienced investor who's delivering the truth learnt (painfully) through the school of hard knocks. 

You could make it a condition of the sale that the property be delivered vacant and in the same condition that it is now.

I have my doubts, and have wondered if those companies can deliver short term success, but struggle in the long term.

I ordered a 3-way topsoil mix (1/3 sand, 1/3 silt, and 1/3 sawdust) and what was delivered was a very poor quality product (I talked to 4 different industry professionals, who all believed he delivered fill dirt with some wood shavings added to it.  

I ordered a 3-way topsoil mix (1/3 sand, 1/3 silt, and 1/3 sawdust) and what was delivered was a very poor quality product (I talked to 4 different industry professionals, who all believed he delivered fill dirt with some wood shavings added to it.