Let me know when you come on down this way, have a cup of coffee (or whatever you like to drink) and shoot the breeze about real estate.

Sounds like you've been drinking the mortgage broker Kool-Aid @Drew Slew.

The truth is though you will likely need to evict all of them eventually because now that young entrepreneur on the couch realizes he figured out a way to have his drinking buddies pay all his rent he will do it again in the future .

Knock on wood ; drink leprecauhn juice from a horseshoe or whatever..So far my residents  (7 total) (south seattle ; burien)  are all current on rent.   

I tell the agent "from now on the price is NOT $60 as I will now have the hassle of getting ELECTRIC turned on ($115 IIRC), Insurance (always a hassle in TX), the HUGE expense of running an ad in the twice weekly paper ($11.50) and possibly an extra 300 mile round trip.After closing on Thursay the agent and I retire to a nice restaurant for dinner and a drink or 6 and she proceeds to tell me that with just a bit of elbow grease there's at least another $4-5K in the place.

He chose the apartment partially based on their no pets policy. 2) They smoke pot on the porch (now legal in NV). 3) They participate in various other activities like drinking and vaping. 

Stick with just getting a drink on monday night, the buffet didn't go over well for me.  

It goes quicker if you throw the paint on from 16 oz cups...LOLUwe, are you drinking beer while you work?

D.sell everything, move to an island somewhere and sell trinkets on the beach and drink a lot of rum:-)Thank you all in advance for any advice!

A seller might accept the idea that you can borrow the money, if he has a sharp Realtor, or attorney, the seller will know differently.POFs is YOUR money, not another lender's, not granny's, not your beer drinking buddy's, it's YOUR money!