As we see here, there are risks beyond just getting into a house and having to take on responsibilities the landlord used to handle.

Seth,First thanks for your service in our military.Second your plan sounds good, well planned and you seem to handle on budget and timeline.

Aaron and Ryan Webber are going to put together a great session for both the beginner with no experience, and the more advanced investor who is looking for strategies to help manage deal flow that they may not have the manpower or cash to handle.

Did you handle it like Townsend or did you circumvent this differently?

Unless you have a competent PM handling everything for you, you need to become good at evaluating people's behavior and past history, and reading between the lines, while at the same time treating everyone fairly.

The City requires either a cashier's check or a money order for all tax lien purchases (probably don't trust employees with cash handling).

There is just one thing holding me back at this point...How exactly to handle the Land Trust.

I posted a simple one line question yesterday about how to handle a wholesalers assignment fee when filing taxes and nobody responded.

Depending on the chain they have a selected broker handling their growth and searches for them.The restaurant also has a builder that does spec work for them.Not all restaurants have free standing and some only have in line models.You have to see what the product mix is for the area.Example if 20 pizza places are in a 2 mile radius the saturation rate might be to high for a particular restaurant.They look at demographics,price for the land,required easements,traffic flow for time of day whether they are mainly a lunch driven business or dinner.Shape of the parcel for architectural work,flow,and what model of restaurant they can build there.Example a franchise has 3 size models.Data for the area suggest the biggest model.Your parcel would only fit their smallest building.In that case they might see about buying another parcel to increase size or find another location.Chain restaurants usually lease the space so they can free up capital to keep growing locations and their brand.

Not quite sure how to handle this.Can you charge extra for additional tenants without violating housing discrimination laws?