Thanks Jon,After your response on this post and the other one from today (where the boyfriend moved in with no background check) I am going to consider month to month again.  

Two and 1/2 weeks into the lease our neighbors have informed us that the boyfriend has been there almost everyday. 

Although my issue at the moment is not with the tenant but rather the tenant's boyfriend that she will not provide me his information. 

My boyfriend lives in Elizabeth, and whenever I'm there I see tons of bandit signs all over--I guess REI is really active there, yes?  

Much of the advice I read says the best way to start investing is to live in your first home so that you can go FHA, making it a little easier to get started (lower down payment).My situation is unique in that my boyfriend just bought a house and I am living there with him, so purchasing and living in my own investment property full-time is not an option.

Currently, my boyfriend and I ordered 50 "We Buy Houses" signs and plan on putting them up tonight around the North Miami area.Any advice would be awesome.

The Woman approached me a couple of times with this: Supposedly she and her boyfriend have broken up and she's paying the rent every month and he just lives there.

Im trying to convince my boyfriend that instead of buying our first dream home, we make a 3-4 year detour to multi-family space...as I am the investor in the family, its sometimes very hard to convince them that its worth working a little bit harder up front for payoffs on the backend.

If you want to pre-qualify yourself ahead of time and pay an app fee, I might consider that, but I don't know - never faced that situation.New job can be a hairy situation, boyfriend w/o job even more so.

And we're talking (often drunk) college students here who tend to like to have boyfriends/girlfriends sleep over, throw parties, etc.On top of liability and the difficulty of finding 4 random strangers who are willing to live together, you'll then have to deal with people sharing spaces.