It's better to spend your time and energy finding a new tenant than fighting a jerk, although your ego might feel otherwise.

She wants to short sell the property to person B who is her boyfriend and spends time at the house?

These would all be free and clear According to our 1031 I have to spend 145k or more, so we have been looking in our local area but have started to look at smaller towns outside of the Indianapolis area just trying to stay close that seems to be my comfort zone for now thanks for the help

He has been through about 4 cycles he said and he said each time for commercial multifamily was the leading drive on the rebound.If you look at cycles they all have similarities and some differences.Recognizing these patterns leads to the best portfolio and the best returns versus risk.What Rich said holds true in that you avoid the herd mentality.People that do not invest prudently do good with some properties and then the others bring them down to a negative to flat position for years before you can recover.Some of these syndicated pools of investors look at the big project as a smaller risk.That is fine if the gamble is made based on the funds entered is only a small percentage of their total worth.Example if the have 2 million liquid and want to spend 100k for an interest in a property that could throw off very high returns than they are still safe versus their overall portfolio.I can tell you that buyers think "I am buying so low there is NO WAY I can lose on this!".

You could spend a fortune retrofitting your house depending on what needs to be done, and I would bet that if you had 10 different engineers look at it, you'd get 10 different opinions.

The other question is how will they maintain the areas you are spending money on?

Instead I will spend more time on this forum learning what is and what is not acceptable practices.

I saw this happen to someone recently because they didn't want to spend the $15-20 to do this step.

Jon Holdman - Jon, did you spend some time in India?

We have been doing business for some time now but someone mentioned to me to spend more time out here so it's looking good.