I'd take the money you need for this deal and I'd take the rest of the money away from that advisor and put it with a fee only fiduciary financial advisor if your friend thinks he needs an advisor.It really upsets me how people have taken the job title "advisor" and make it seem like they have your best interests at heart when they really don't.

New landlord here!  We acquired our first duplex in December with one tenant staying in place and the other one was evicted before we closed for multiple reasons.  The side of the evicted tenant was pretty bad and the...

Many of them claim to understand that and then get upset when you try to hold them accountable.A bankruptcy from six years ago isn't a huge issue as long as they've been clean since then.

We have expectations, and if those are not meet we don't wait 1 second to let our upset be known and as my wife lights up the property I am on other line with Hilton getting out room and driver sent to pick us up, lol.

The part that was upsetting to me was that she asked me to treat her like my family, since she is the same ethnicity as me and is elderly.

I don't want to upset anyone or create a bad reputation for myself.

Great advice, he also used the excuse the tenants would be upset to know he was selling the place and wanted to keep the sell low key as to not worry them, this keeping me out of their units.

Personally I am little upset that they ask for 3rd month 50% off.

That happens when you get neighbors upset and they turn you in.

I had a tenant pass away, an upset family and son who I had to pay to leave, a homeless woman move in (my handyman found her as he crawled in through a window cause he didn't have the key), and oh yeah I got punched in the face by an apparent random druggie walking down the street.