This was a guy that was virtually always paycheck to paycheck, one away from financial disaster and if he didn't have his 70+ year old mother's house to fall back to would be homeless.

I myself am a mother as well, so I know how easy it is to beat ourselves up about not completing EVERYTHING on our to-do list (which is usually impossible to begin with).

If I left the country for a year, I'd ask my mother to watch over the property while I was gone and I wouldn't expect her to go get a license.

@Jacob Chapman My mother, wife, children, and granddaughter all highly recommend me.Sorry, it's late on a Saturday night and I need to get off the internet. lol2o year AZ Realtor, 6 years as a broker and Property Manager.

People that I would recommend to my mother down to people I wouldn't recommend to Satan myself.   

@Sophia Berry Not if your mother opens HELOC and lends you the money.

For your amusement, here's the situation:The lady who rents is a single mother and she had a baby sitter take care of the kids while she's at work. 

It seems to me that every investor and their mother in WA is now focused on Pierce County, Tacoma in particular.

At the end of the day, this is a business and I’m her landlord, not her mother. 

Unfortunately at the time we made the offer the money was still in my mother’s account and our agent said that we had to put her name on the offer.