Starting out, I let a couple tenants string me out for a couple months and when I finally got them out the place needed a full rehab.In the future, living by the adage, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, really serves the landlord well.

Subject-to deals, lease/options, short term flips where you do not close, joint ventures with other investors who can qualify are all possible strategies.Or you can just find one investor who needs extra help pounding nails and work with them on projects.

You know the old adage, "An Ounce of Prevention equals a Pound of Cure"!

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Hello fellow rehabbers, If you have been rehabbing for a while, I am sure you have ran into a situation like this one...You buy a house and the seller says he will “clean things up” and then a few days before closing he says that there are “some things he couldn’t quite get to”… and that they “may need to leave some items behind”...Our record to date is 12,000 pounds of “Stuff” (being polite) being left behind… Check out this You Tube video… They left a “little” stuff that they “couldn’t quite get to”… http://buildingmyrealestateempire.com/2007/09/20/rehab-project-seller-left-these-items-behind/Have you ever broken my record of 12,000 pounds of “stuff”?

If it was not properly permitted and zoned, those sort of questions might result in unwanted attention.What are your plans and financial situation?

When I read the title of this thread I thought; "tell the tenant to pound sand!"

The exterminators went there with me and we saw that the tenant kept 20 pound sacks of rice on the kitchen floor.

I am not talking about just going to court.I am talking about 3 day notice to quit,filing eviction,court date in the mail,going to court if tenants answers and getting judgement and writ,then paying writ fee and waiting for the marshal to set up throwing the stuff out.These time lines and processes will vary by state.In some areas the marshalls are backed up serving the writs.So if it takes 2 months to get them out and the writ takes a month then it will be 3 months of lost rent.4 if you get them out mid month unless you can land someone living in a hotel or moving to the area mid month.Then you would only lose 3 1/2 months.You also have to factor in time to turn the place and clean it and rent it out again.The fact you accepted a reduced rent will make it hard to get an eviction in court.Accepting a partial rent usually means you are doing a workout with the tenant.So for instance of I can get a majority of the rent I might do a workout.If the tenant wants me to stop eviction for 100 dollars I tell them to pound sand. :)What you do will also depend on your personal cash flow situation.Are you trying to preserve personal credit and do you have a recourse loan on this property??

Never obtained a GC license(due to unwanted liability) and Built 44 custom spec homes in UT and around 50 in other States.