Best way to start from very nothing and in college to a stay at home dad to now having over twenty units!

Then another, and another, and twenty more.

If the tenant will engage in a discussion, there is a much better chance of the move-out going as good as could be expected.... mitigation of damages too.In twenty years, with 15 units, we have only had three evictions that went to court for unlawful detainer.

He recently received his real estate license, and we are in search of  investors in the Asheville, North Carolina area (we are actually about twenty minutes south of Asheville, in Hendersonville). 

Now I'm thinking, 'if five equals twenty five fairly easy, with 50 I could have 250k in debt.

I sure wish twenty years ago I would have followed the advice I am giving you... back then, twenty years was an eternity so I wasn't as concerned about my future. 

You are their new landlord, who ponied up the scratch to buy the roof over their head, because they've been in this country twenty years and never realized the risks that come with not owning that roof.As soon as you point any of this out to them, however, I guarantee they'll be ready with another set of excuses or some general excuse about how this is all about landlord greed (and not their own outsized stupidity over decades).I am an American Born Abroad and an infant immigrant to this country.

These things, to a large extent, really didn't end up mattering, next to the ability to figure out how to beat an unfair system and not be a chump stuck for forty years in a cubicle farm breathing all the building occupants' filtered farts all day long, with my greatest ambition being to get out of the cubicle farm and move twenty feet away into a perimeter office with a sorry little window that doesn't open, covered by cheap blinds that are never drawn.

A quick bit of background info on myself, I am married with children in my mid twenties and trying to get involved with real estate investing.

Twenty-four hours is presumed to be a reasonable notice in the absence of evidence to the contrary.(9) Promptly commence an action under Chapter 1923. of the Revised Code, after complying with division (C) of section 5321.17 of the Revised Code, to remove a tenant from particular residential premises, if the tenant fails to vacate the premises within three days after the giving of the notice required by that division and if the landlord has actual knowledge of or has reasonable cause to believe that the tenant, any person in the tenant's household, or any person on the premises with the consent of the tenant previously has or presently is engaged in a violation as described in division (A)(6)(a)(i) of section 1923.02 of the Revised Code, whether or not the tenant or other person has been charged with, has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of, or has been determined to be a delinquent child for an act that, if committed by an adult, would be a violation as described in that division.