Once I have exhausted my HECOC, I will lock in the rate. 

Thanks for sharing your wisdom.Using the chimney stack depends on your city code, here in Utah if it's and aluminum vent piping for the stack it's legal to tie into it, if it's just a straight old school brick 2X3 chimney box you can't demp the water heater exhaust into it. 

Only sure fire way to get people to move is filing for eviction.There are a lot of options you can employ based on the situation before then.But it sounds like with these bums you have exhausted all those, and they have not been true to their word.Evict.

And yes, you may want to find an agent you can hand off potential "retail" sellers to once you have exhausted all the avenues of obtaining an wholesale price. 

If there are other posts that answer the majority of my questions, I apologize for not doing an exhaustive search. 

I can only assume by the way you wrote the post that you have exhausted this avenue and someone may be negotiating by emotion ;) $74k is an expensive emotion....

Hi All,
I'm brand new to BiggerPockets so please, go easy. We're on our third buy and hold in San Antonio. Our first house was rented by out of state renters. After four months, they broke the contact to purchase the...

I am bringing this situation to you all because I have exhausted all my known options and think this community can for sure help.To cut to the chase, I have a 2 unit multi family I bought for 225K that is now worth conservatively 400k, with cash flow of $1500/month. 

There are too many photos of the same rooms from different angles - and that gets a tad exhausting. 

Also ensure there are no gaps around pipes, .e.g water heater exhaust, that allow noise to easily escape into the attic and travel into the main house.