Making matters worse, because of the fans and dehumidifiers running to dry everything up, the power in the house shuts off every time we turn on an appliance or certain lights.

If you live in an expensive area it makes a lot of sense to buy somewhere where you have more purchasing power and less risk. 

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You have the deals and are going to be doing all the work, so you hold the power.

The other great thing about those areas is that labor costs run high and regulatory climates are severe, bottlenecking development of new apartments and giving a unique value proposition to single families for rental conversion.

Could, if it works the way we think it's going to work, be a hell of a powerful thing...

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Pretty interesting to cast doubt over my reputation/character when (A) you don’t know me and (B) unlike everyone else, your assessment of the conversation went in a direction that nobody else was going towards.

Of course, we will be having our local lawyer take a look at the lease.I'm hesitant mostly due to the overwhelming legal power and experience that this tenant would have compared to our small LLC.

Telling them too much they will start throwing what "you're supposed to do" in to the conversation....whether that is accurate to this specific case or not.As far as the parcel segregation, you could actually apply for that any time in theory.