In order to “sweeten the pot” I am considering offering the property to him at $70,000 cash or $80,000 and I carry the mortgage at a below market interest.

But even these poor performers put some money in the pot for the next deals.BTW, on the high end, I got a total return of 181% ($100K in and $281K back) in 19 months and a total return of 380% ($125K in and 475K back) over about 6 years. 

I personally would never give that info to a potential landlord ..And while of course as landlods we need to ensure we approve tenants that will pay their rent and not damage the unit,  whether someone drinks, smokes pot or dresses up as superman  is none of my beeswax - as long as they meet my screening criteria ;) I actually think I checked social media on only one applicant.

I assume you were smoking pot?

Hope you all had a great year in 2018 and you made pots of money.Just curious what and where you will be investing in 2019 if you care to share

And February's a short month, too.If you send a $25 gift certificate to Walmart or Costco, you're just a cheap bastard.If you pass along a few cookies your wife managed to bake, all they're thinking about is that their sweat, blood, and tears went to fund her free time potting around in the kitchen, having the perfect Christmas while they were sweating through doubles at the plant.Maybe you think that if you cut them a $50 or $100 break on the rent, that would be nice.

When the economy really goes to hell, forget getting your hands on your 3rd-party-held gold -- you'll find it was really in a vanishing leprechaun's pot all along. 

Once we had it under contract, we realized that it was going to be very tough to wholesale this property because there was a squatter occupying the house and none of our buyers were interested in buying anything like that.Because of the price we had the house for, we decided to take a risk and by the house ourselves with the squatter in the property.As it turned out, once we bought the house, the squatter voluntarily left the property.Now, this could have easily gone the other way and we could have been stuck fighting to get this squatter out for months.

I caution against the cash out option there because it sounds like you have other "hands in the pot" as it were and if you think that wrangling that many units is a nightmare good luck with the headaches that will come from trying to get everybody with a legal right of ownership to sign on to cash out and the paperwork that will come with it.

If you leave your job voluntarily or through a layoff or the 401(k) plan ends, your 401(k) loan will become due sooner.