I was pretty pissed hence I mailed it back to the citing officer & demanded an explanation from 5 yrs  growth to 3 weeks growth and then asked that they burn their citation (bad on my part but I was out done). the owner is deceased & im the second tax certificate purchaser where the first purchaser is deceased — so im kinda stuck with this one and I’m just keeping the yard up until I can get a deed.  

@Natalie Schanne first, I wouldn’t let the cash burn a hole in your pocket even though you are paying 3.5% on it.

With COVID in place some lenders will NOT look at your rental income period for the DTI.I got burned by that a few months ago and they didn't hit me with that until the 11th hour.  

I see buyers getting burned down the line. 

If you are carrying financing on the project, this can burn through all your "savings" pretty quickly.  

The numbers don't make sense when you first look at it and the only reason I took this path is because I had money to burn and it was fun.

Then they started to keep their belongings in the space, which I didn't mind at the beginning, but recently I see they leave dangerous items such as burning candles and a standing mirror without mounting.

@Cassidy Burns you are asking a question that I have been thinking of these last two months.

I've seen owners take on problematic tenants for guaranteed Section 8 rent and they were burned in the end.

If you have no experience and you try to start off with a complicated, high risk, difficult to learn strategy (like syndicating a 300 unit portfolio), you'll probably crash and burn.  ...sure, a strategy like syndication could allow some to scale up quickly (if they're a master syndicator), but if you're a beginning investor, you're probably not prepared to take on something like that.Similarly, starting off with a $10 million self storage facility or 50+ unit multifam portfolio probably has a high likelihood of failure for an inexperienced investor (and the consequences of failing at that scale are pretty serious--e.g.; bankruptcy, and potentially losing a lot of other people's money and thereby ruining relationships in the process).Beginning skiers should start off on beginner terrain.