Hello,  I"m a new landlord--though I have been a business owner (and employer) for many years, so I "get" a lot of things that you all deal with as landlords.   

Are financial institutions starting to make use of the DOS clause more today than they used to or is this still a rare scenario? 

@Dorothy Ma If I read the zoning correctly, this particular block can only be duplexes limited to two stories.

My biggest or most unusual problems were: abandoned vehicles, a person escaped from a mental institution, tenants with pet rattlesnakes that escaped their container, a round trip visit to the dentist for a wisdom tooth removal, a one way bus ticket from Kansas to Georgia, cashing $25,000 worth of checks each week for a group of guys from out of state, etc.  

We live in eastern Massachusetts and the pricing for multifamily homes or single-family homes are pretty high  in comparison to the rental income except in some of the more urban  and higher crime areas.  

Hello my name is Stephanie Valme and I am currently 21 years old and attend the University of Massachusetts  Dartmouth.

I was looking for some insight into multi-family/ apartment building investing, in and around Holyoke, MA.

You might even get lucky and sell to an institutional buyer.

Greenville has super low inventory and lots of institutional investor activity.  

The long and short of it is that the trust would sell the props and reinvest into other income producing assets, and you could draw income from the trust during your life, and then whatever remains when you pass would go to your chosen charity (or educational institution, they reeeeealllly push this on their wealthy alums, but I like the idea of funding a worthy charity, personally).