I have spoken to all involved and the note holder asked that we make an offer on the note.

How could you possibly be scammed when a cashier's check is involved?

The guys I had hired to clean out the apartment then took these items to 'who knows where'.Said tenant has now sent me an informal letter stating that he has gotten back on his feet after a divorce and now has the means to properly and legally sue me for improper eviction proceedings and theft of his personal property. he states he has spoken to several neighbors who will attest to the fact that his property was loaded into a truck and stolen. he also states that he documented with witnesses several calls he made to me asking where his things were and if there were any storage fees involved.

It gets really difficult when R.E. agents are involved

If you do this you may want to get an attorney of her choice involved and an appraisal on the property as you do not want someone coming back on you for equity stripping or taking advantage of someone "old and in distress"

Check with several agents til you start to develope a consensus and a feel for the area.Don't rush and don't get emotionally involved in the transaction.

I would say a good real estate attorney needs to get involved with this one...

Or, “So, what do you do all day”… Or, “It must be nice getting those big checks”… funny the things they perceive to be what is involved…They don’t see me writing fat checks all the time to make things go, or spend nights and weekends working, firing contractors, all of the things it takes to be successful.

However, my new problem is that my job involves traveling away from home for 1-5 weeks at a time, and then only being home for 1-2 weeks, so this is going to add a challenge, but I'm going to try to figure it out as I go.

Most of them try to sell ther packages by making people believe that they can become multi-millionaires in a very short time period without doing any work at all.So now that you've figured out that it is a lie and that actually there is a great deal of time and work involved in real estate, stop trying to get your millions without working and get to work and put some time and effort in.I don't think real estate is hard.