Bill Gulley - I re-read Gursel's OP and apparently I zoned out on the fact that the Brother does reside in the subject property.I can't even claim a tremendous gift for seeing the obvious.

There are also two sides to every story and for this reason I know private lenders here who won't refinance a borrower out of a prior HML.I reread this thread and I see no indication of anyone speaking like a shark or with crooked intentions.

I just re-read my post you quoted and I left out something I thought was understood.

Okay, this is going to be quite a long overdue success story, as I should have posted it months ago, but I was recently reminded of wanting to do it when I re-read @Mehran Kamari's post about his success story from October.Back near the beginning of the year, I had posted in the Bigger Pockets Marketplace about the success I had in the Milwaukee market.

I reread the credit form a month ago and there is nothing that would prohibit us from marketing the property -- or even enter into a contract.

After re-reading what I wrote, I can see why you said that about lack of confidence.

Will have to re-read the lease agreement to verify.

I want to thank you for asking this question in the first place because I am currently re-reading Texas property code and there are some changes since the last time I had to evict somebody.

  @Brian Gibbons  thanks for posting about your mentor Glenn again  The 1st time you posted about him I read it late at night , saved it & closed out of my email  The next morning I read it again , printed it & saved the printed copy in my tickler file so I could & did reread it each & every monday morning including this morning 4/24/17  This 2nd post about you & Glen is much longer & more indepth  Thanks!!!     

Now, I've gotten basically two answers from people on this:1 - He can't do that, because we both agreed to break the lease, and there's tons of proof.2 - He CAN do that, because the new building can be considered "substitute housing" under the two-year lease.I have read and re-read Wisconsin state laws and have yet to see anything about "substitute housing" in them.