@Bo A Vanecko this is pretty fast moving and people’s perceived severity of the situation is changing by the day.

It sounds like we’re pretty much in alignment here and tone was the undercurrent of perceived disagreement.

My guess is that after you pay the utilities, it's going to eat up much of your perceived cash flow.

I'm really interested in the perceived (or actual) downside to pursuing.thanks all

. #4 - Just because people on BP speak to me in a manner that I don't understand, or is from another era, or in a manner I might perceive as being mean, that doesn't necessarily make them internet trolls and maybe, just maybe, they say these things to me because they would hate to see my incompetence cause the death of another person.#5 - Just because people advertise or present themselves or I misjudge them as experts on a certain topic, the reality is they might not be an expert at all, and taking their advice may have serious adverse consequences.

My guess is that either 1) some of the offices were vacant and now were rented which dramatically increased the cash flow or 2) the property still cash flowed and given the virus situation, certainty of cash flow (even if small) was better than a one time payout with no other investment prospects readily available.I'm in a position to put 30% down so I shouldn't have any trouble financing the property, but if the owner is no longer looking for a one time payout, my question is there a way to 1) convince the owner to issue seller financing (or some other means) to get them the cash flow they perceive as valuable and 2) make sure I don't overpay for that financing as rates are so low right now?

*Note I am not a lawyer and this should not be perceived as legal advice!

A lot of large PE firms and REITs that levered up over the years to purchase commercial notes seem to be getting crushed right now with bank margin calls due to the perceived downgrade in value for the underlying properties (due to a foreseen loss in paying tenants with companies going out of business and tenants not being able to make rent) and the banks' requirements to mark to market the loans they made to these firms/REITs to buy those mortgages. 

If you are running into this, the people you are engaging with perceive you as a Newbie and don't want their time wasted or don't have the hustle it requires to work with a new Inventor.

They are indeed fortunate to have you as their landlord.I am a tenant, in Colorado, who *will* be able to, and will, pay my rent for April.I can assure you, based on the constant, ever more hopeless, dismal, conversations circulating around the neighborhood by tenants from every nearby rental property, tenants would appreciate knowing where they stand ,rather than, perhaps, even feeling they have no choice but to move themselves out, ahead of perceived legal action by  their landlord.These are reliable tenants, with *years* of paying their rent on time, quiet, respectful tenants, who, for the most part, have landlords that are newer owners, less than a year, of the property they have been renting for 8 or more years.