I certainly admit to not screening this guy well, I called his reference for landlord that was a hoax in retrospect and even calling his professional reference this week, no one is surprised.

If anything, our market should be warm if not hot right now (low unemployment, significant loss of housing units after tornado) so I'm pretty surprised...

It's been a surprising PITA.  

You'd be surprised.

I am having the seller give a 60 day notice so the move is no surprise to them (especially over the holidays) but how do I keep a good relationship with the tenants that are staying? 

., telling me you'd be surprised how many homes have 18 bedrooms" My response was that I wanted to be a legal business, pay bed taxes, and was trying to do that. 

Still, if you pull a demo permit/building permit, and your tonnage for the demo is substantial, then the city will normally point you to a C&D recycling company that you need to dump there to have 50% of your dump recycled, no surprise on that, I am just wondering if that is the case here, maybe there is some sort of IRS rebate that we don't know about, HA!

Crystal Aravalo I'm surprised that my post generated such negative responses in you.

If they don't, you now have valid grounds to walk away and find a realtor who will.You would be surprised at what offers will be accepted once submitted.

If you carefully tracked all the time and money you spent on maintenance on your primary residence, you might be very surprised at the total cost.