Even if only 20% of sellers are knowingly dishonest that gives you a 1 in 5 chance of getting burned if you don't verify their numbers.The good thing about commercial properties is the lender is going to have certain minimum numbers they plug in for different financials regardless of what numbers the seller says. 

@David Banker I’d owned 3 investment properties 15 years ago 2 multis and a SFH and gotten burned on all 3.

Stay away from every online auction because you can get burned seriously.

Congrats @Cassidy Burns!

I see you have read a few of the staples books, but over time you will get board and even burned out.  

A lot of tenants will have burned their bridges behind them but that's their issue.   

Landlords have been burned (from what I have heard) my opinion only...A sub-lease allows for the original renter to allow other leases to be signed and upheld. 

A 15-year old unit is built with all the most-modern pasts and most-likely only a motor burned out, a switch is broke, or it needs a little refrigerant and the cost for any of those items should not exceed $800.

@Carol Burns Yes, you could do a 1031 exchange if these are investment properties.

This DOES stink, but the place didn't burn to the ground and no one murdered anyone in your rental property.