Peoples sexual or religious preferences are none of my business but do they follow the terms of the lease is what I am concerned with.

For the last 10 years, I've been living in Asia running a small marketing business I started from nothing to making $3-4k per month.

I too am someone new to this business and hopefully leaving my full time job one day to pursue investing only.Good luck on your duplex and many more!

I have been told that you cannot do this business unless your spouse is on board, but here I am with well over 20 years in investing and over 30 units and still doing it. 

It seemed like the most logical way to get into real estate, and my partner was more experienced in business than I was at the time so it was a no-brainer.

Let's say you rent it to an operator, and their business fails, but they leave all the residents in place. 

As a lender, that is a much safer business decision than offering you a 5% interest rate mortgage, with zero equity.

I've specialized in landlord-tenant law since 2006, and I can tell you, most lease agreements out there (including from notable online sources) are only standard leases and do not have a professional landlord business in mind. 3.

But I would suggest this whole business could fall into that category that we might get conflicting advice, some not good.

They only allow basically 1 business day for payment at the PBC foreclosure auctions.