Motivated sellers sometimes tend to “forget” about a lien or a judgement or two, so it’s always wise to do both a tital search and setup an escrow company to facilitate the payments directly to the mortgage company if there is one.

The cause of a bankruptcy is irrelevant, medical or otherwise, what is important is the length of time since the bankruptcy and there record since.Simply because it was caused by medical does not change the fact that following a bankruptcy a individual is financially fragile and a very high risk.

If you have a shi**y product, it's going to be empty, or you're going to be leaving money on the table by collecting less than you could (rather, giving up a high return on your capex improvements).Whenever I defend 'slublords' people think I am one. 

My day-to-day tasks include in-depth market research, pro forma compilation, product programming, etc.

They give tenants permission to contact those individuals directly any time they are unavailable.

Addressing the problems is like trying to put out small individual fires in a forest that is burning.

@Jared F.You should consult an attorney when it comes to asset protection.A couple questions you want to ask the syndicator is how the entity is structured.If the entity is structured as an LP or an LLC - you are likely a non-managing member or a limited partner.So the question you would then ask the attorney is if you have additional protection investing as a limited partner/non-managing member in your individual names or as an LLC.I have seen individuals invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in syndicated deals.

If you know your comps well you can use the individual complexes’ websites to check their rates, but those can vary widely in accuracy.

Just like an expense report that you would charge for business travel etc. to establish a legitimate separation between you as an individual and your LLC. 

A family member (breadwinner) passed away within a couple of weeks ago and another family member has recently started to receive mail from the individual that passed.