And don't try to self-help, because if you do it wrong, you can be required to start all over, or the courts can punish you for doing it wrong.Try Inessa Shur of Shur Law Group

If the seller is "vulnerable" (a minority race, elderly, disabled, unsophisticated, etc) special provisions and punishments apply.

It doesn't matter how often they investigate/punish and it doesn't matter what the ramifications are.

@Matthew M.You certainly HAVE pointed out an important thing here -- for good landlords working in low-income/high-cashflow properties, people that have been trapped in the system through previous criminal activities that they have been punished severely for and have reformed, well, very often and sadly make the very best low-income tenants.

Coconutts never stop growing and many uses for Coconutts.................hahahaha.If you were there and did it yourself ...ok.You be providing a job for Luis, Migel, Jose and all that is part of the sell.Ray has been punished before for non-sense.    

. - that falls under "self-help eviction" and can be punished sternly by the courts.)If you're going to own property in Rhode Island it's definitely worth reading through the RI Landlord Tenant Handbook (pdf), which is a more human-readable description of the RI Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.

To us it seems unfair to basically punish us for his previous bad luck, and unreasonable that he wants to protect himself from risk by pushing it all onto us.

I've had lengthy discussions with the compliance officer at the DIvision and it is touchy...and despite what is in statute the Division has autonomy outside of statute...we have revised code, and administrative code, and internal rules, and egotistical politicians that need to punish people for no reason...so, if you're doing anything related to real estate with or without a license in this state, you're open to the Divisions authority.I had a former business partner pay Vena Jones Cox $13,000 for her guru wholesale program in Cincinnati and I about pulled my hair out....so, I guess the point is that despite the rhetoric, criminals are still actively teaching classes on how to break the law...it's like paying for a class that teaches you how to speed....it's insanity. 

If you say you're going to live there and don't it's loan fraud and can be punishable with jail time.

Or you could go with"You must have committed great sins for God to have visited a punishment like me upon you" -Ghengis Khan:)