I don't know.So for $56,000 dollars down plus (an estimated) $7,500 in closing costs plus another $5000 in furnishings, you get an asset that produces about $500 dollars a month. $68,500 / $500 per month = about 12.4 years to get back the intial investment.  

This is generally code for they invested $25k in a sponsor's project among a few million dollars of syndicated preferred equity capital and it generally is in some type of hoped-for reposition project. 

I am not a fan of that...too many property managers will take anyone that will sign and move to the next dollar. 

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They are willing to pay a few hundred dollars above market rents and would have essentially 0% vacancy since the sober living company would be on the hook for the lease, not the sober living tenants. 

If they hit their numbers they would be leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table by financing with equity instead of debt.

But, if they are flippers/rehabbers, investors, property managers, I could see that being a benefit.And I would certainly be looking at flight options into either market, as I couldn't imagine putting hundreds of thousands of dollars into investments in a market with visiting those investments at least a couple times per year.  

Your lease agreement should include a clause that makes the cost of repairs up to a certain dollar amount to be covered by the tenant. 

To fix this problem without involving all of this shenanigans would probably only cost a few hundred dollars in materials and a few hours labor.

I got dollars to doughnuts you’re screwed.