They are already playing the "medical distress" card, which is like a suit of gold-plated armor. 

Hmm;  A landlord is forbidden to even ask about applicant/tenant medical issues, so the first problem is, How is the LL to even know of the conflict?

I typically ignore student loan and/or medical late payments.As long as they aren't delinquent a lot, can afford the place (with verifiable income), have good landlord reference(s) (aren't needy, paid on time, or paid late fees if they were late and didn't destroy the property) and don't have any evictions, then they're good.If the first guy qualifies, let him know, set up a date to get the lease signed and then mail the old guy his fee back since you didn't process it.

In these cases, the specific sector was over-inflated and collapsed as faulty - maybe even fraudulent financial vehicles and/or practices were introduced to suck even more money out of the sector as it heated up.Just because the dot com sector eventually swallowed reality and fixed its fundamentals on value products/services, the energy sector resolved in the courts, and the housing sector flushed out its overly speculative practices (many of which were really bank-driven, primarily as loans issued to folks who had no business buying housing - and toxic mortgage packages created with weird names and no vehicle history to attract investments thus made with no due diligence and no 3rd party oversight - which took unprecedented government intervention and bailout across many sectors to fix), doesn't mean that the next sector downturn trigger doesn't lurk out there.What some call creativity or innovation is really just greed masked in packages so new and weird that due diligence is nearly impossible.  

Hello everyone I am brand new to the investment world as well as Bigger Pockets.I was recently retired medically from the Marine corps and new that a fixed income wasn't going to cut it to support my family.

They have nothing to do with experiential type places for brick and mortar or necessity based medical or other type tenants.Big box stuff has been going vacant a long time.

Though I understand some take it for medical purposes, I would strongly encourage you do independent research on the health ramifications of this stuff, especially as it’s gotten ridiculously potent.

So it's really hard to break through as a newbie in commercial (I'm not looking for multifamily, I'm pursuing medical and office, but same idea).One thing I'm working on lately is I've hand selected about a dozen buildings that I really want to own.

It will also complete the "bypass loop" around greater Orlando that is currently missing it's west and north portions.On top of that, there's a huge new hospital campus being built near the 414/429 interchange in Apopka that is driving massive residential expansion, and talks of a Lake Nona type medical city with vacant land readily available.

What would make you believe your tenants medical excuse story.