@James Rodenberg I think everyone should self manage when they start out because 1) starting out you have much smaller margins and saving the PM fee will help you stay afloat as you grow. 2) you learn by doing and you will gain good experience from dealing with tenants and their problems, you'll also learn how the mechanicals of your properties work so you'll understand why problems are occurring.

I'm not sure what law are in your state so can't comment on whether failure to pay the deposit is sufficient grounds for eviction but I would suspect it's not.

In the future, do a court records search at https://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/If you had done that, you would have seen they have 8 failure to pay rent cases against them.

(which were commonly 18%+ at the time).The mechanics of getting a cash advance on an unsecured credit line have not changed (much) in forty years.

Is there a step up in basis for the husbands half of ownership, will there be a $250,000 or $500,000 homestead deduction, and are there other mechanisms in play that I may not be aware of?

Yet, I feel like a failure….

Failure is not an option in anything that I put my time and money into. 

There should have been a plan-B from the start, that seems like failure #1 to me in this and a STRONG question of the experience and capability for this sponsor.

In Washington County, Maryland, if my Lease Contract says all charges owed are considered rent, if my tenant paid their base rent but not maintenance fees and water bills owed, can i file against the tenant for failure to pay rent?

Im interested in knowing the process on possibly converting existing garage/mechanic shop space into restaurant space.