The one who is renting wants to leave his place (shared with three other students) because one of the roommates moved his girlfriend into the apartment and let her sleep/live on the couch without the other roommates' permission (haven't called the landlord yet to do the reference check).

It could have been a garage full of trash and pissed out couches the previous owners didnt want to discard themselves.

That allowed me to buy, fix, sell, and use the equity to do the same but with a larger property.So I hate to answer your question with an answer that doesn't really apply -- but if you can get some money in the game (shake the couch cushions, or as friends/family) you have many more options.The other thing is to work hard and birddog properties for local buyers.

The only issue is that there couch wouldn't fit down the basement stairs so they had to put it in the kitchen (they may or may not have figured that out if they had looked at it in person).

Always couch every discussion in how it will help the investor, not how it will help you.

This is a recent change due to the perceived liability increase in student rentals- the high visibility of the couches burning on porches of college towns.

I then spent time on the couch with the wife talking and watching some shows.

lol Brandon is probably snoozing on his couch with the cat again....... : ) I did a quick Google search and came across this.

That said, my other tenant has been sleeping on the couch because she cannot get any sleep in her room.When I attempted to bring this up to the nocturnal noise-maker, she insisted that she is not loud and the other girl likes sleeping on the couch and it's not her fault.

They take up a great length of wall space that tenants often are not willing to give up, so they place their couches and other furniture too close to the heater, which is a fire hazard.