@Gladys VillaHouse hacking, primary home purchase and leveraging equity, direct investment in rental properties, and hybrid approaches are all strategies for property management.

3) City is going to be writing more tickets and making it easier for tenants to escrow their rents with court if property has no CofC.4) Terrible business approach! 

NOw that it is also a multi family, perhaps the income approach will also better the value after analysis by the appraiser.

Thanks @Stephen DeFalcoWe take a slightly different approach… We also advise them that they are on the hook for the lease, but instead of putting the burden on them to sublet it, we tell them that we will turn on our marketing and fill it as quickly as possible, and that as soon as we can get someone moved in, they would be off the hook (as it was). 

This likely will vary by state.I do agree with you there is some definite potential to this approach especially for buyers with high incomes (and high tax rates) and looking for post retirement income streams.

To get a sense of my approach and experience my YT channel is @flippingspain.

So instead of a data-driven and transparent approach to recommending commissions, more and more sellers will be entirely ignorant of what the prevailing and competing commissions are.

He simply wants out.I think the best approach is to let tenant B leave, even though tenant A and the conflict is going away on June 30.

They did not bind because they/we all had knowledge the storm was approaching. 

I have no idea if you can use this approach as a Foreign National but there's nothing to lose in having the discussion.