A Mentor – I am new to the area and hoping to find someone to learn from and help that knows the area well and can guide me in the right direction.2.

The deal fell into my lap.

I RARELY will do a deal for someone i have not personally met.. so I do a lot of flying :)  

, 2) it manages the properties directly so there are many hands in the cookie jar, and 3) how/when/impact if "they" decide to liquidate properties and what would be the exact impact to me? 

Quote from @Brandon Morgan: If you screw up a deal with a friend or relative, you will lose money and the relationship.

Again its all in how much meat there is on a deal.

I would take James' advice: ignroe the rent, deal with the unauthorized cat, and move forward.

Trying to Scale Solo.The Myth of Doing Everything YourselfWhen I first got into real estate, I thought I had to:✅ Find the deals✅ Secure financing✅ Handle renovations✅ Manage tenants✅ Deal with maintenance✅ Track every dollarI figured, “If I want to maximize my profits, I need to do it all myself.”Sound familiar?

You would pay $950k for that property because it’s a deal based on today’s value?

Nothing can guarantee that.Looking back over 30 years and hundreds of deals I can recall only two occasions when a greedy homeowner tried to bail on our deal.