There is no harm in pre-leasing.

I still have my doubts on if the market is going in the next 3-4 yrs but it doesn't harm to get more information :)Based on my personal experience, I've seen quite a few young couples moving to Hayward, CA working in the bay area recently.

You're dealing with people's lives and their most valuable asset, so when you tie it up on a contract with no ability to perform on the contract and without the proper knowledge, you're harming your reputation long before you have one.

Even if you have two activities ( flips and rentals) under one entity, they will still be taxed differently and having them in one entity does no harm to taxes.

If they do harm their neighbors you better believe that you’ll get sued for letting this go on.

And the inspection report must come from a certified inspector if you intend to back out based on inspection.No harm in trying, if that is what you want to do, since they will counter with their addendum terms.

No harm.

Most likely they are not doing any harm as is.

There is a similar guy in LA who will get caught too, soon or late, I hope.And very true that dishonest guys are harmful to us.The point is that they won't let you scale too much in any given location.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.