The seller had open heart surgery and cannot keep up any longer.Because of the nature of this complex being (sort of) a halfway house vacancies/non-payers I'm estimating at 20% (verified by the seller when we met for over an hour yesterday).

This family had a husband who worked in a blue collar job and the wife stayed home with their 4 kids, one of whom is very sick and has had multiple surgeries.

The seller is a broker, but he just had knee surgery so he could not be present.

I focused on health partmeaning scheduled elective surgery. expected business as realtor to slow down so took family vacation in summer ;)realized my REI still functions without me in it 100%.I'm back on the driver seat again on the REI. realized we need double the freedom number of units... so that my next 5 yrs goal.I do 5 year plans... so far on track since 2001

If I needed open heart surgery I'd hire a a heart surgeon.

It's not brain surgery! 

This isn't brain surgery and it is not difficult to calculate the cash flow the way I do it.

Also it kept us from buying a pig that would have required plastic surgery not just lipstick. ????

This is a question for Steven or someone like him, spend a few dollars, go to someone that is an expert on tax law, this isn't something you want to do yourself.Same on protection, find an attorney that has spent time dealing with these things, nothing against anyone on here, but everyone's situation is different A normal individual reading tax law is about like me reading on the internet how to do surgery on myself,,,,its a good way for bad things to happen. andy

One day, I received a letter by snail mail detailing how she had gotten surgery and she gave a sob story about how she wouldn't be able to work for six weeks and therefore, couldn't pay me for two months, but would then get caught up when back to work.