trespassing...also could be bait and switch laws if you convert that lead to something else...should be fraud too.

I purchased it (short sale) and renovated it (convert to SFH) for $800k, with a total cash outlay of about $400k.

If a real estate attorney does not like that verbiage perhaps you can call it a "hold fee" and if the tenant does comply with the lease terms the "hold fee is converted to the security deposit."

Commercial is a different can of worms.With the recession there have been some serious casualties and a few with residential landlords who converted to comercial.

Will - No problem . . . we need to convert you from techtard to technerd.

Property is a 2 flat total of 5 beds 2 baths, but has a unfinshed garden apartment below grade. after rehab rental income would be $2200 if garden unit is converted. total debt service is $900. annual rent of $26,400 -debt service $10,800=$15,600.

Property is a 2 flat total of 5 beds 2 baths, but has a unfinshed garden apartment below grade. after rehab rental income would be $2200 if garden unit is converted. total debt service is $900. annual rent of $26,400 -debt service $10,800=$15,600.

i hold a few notes...i've only sold one so far, but am currently looking to sell another..let me tell you about my experience...my buyer was an investor with a few properties, 650 credit score and put 10% down on a fully occupied 4plex...after a few months of ontime payments, i could only sell the note for 80% of unpaid principal balance...i'm told by a few note investors, that was actually a pretty sweet deal for me, although i don't have much experience to back that up with...my investor didn't want mortgages on his credit report, but could have gone to his small bank and gotten another loan, so he was a rare situation..most people you owner finance to won't have 10% down, and good credit..so you're prob looking at less than what i received, even though my buyer was non owner occupied...i don' tknow if your spread is really large enough to do well at this....i bought my 4plex for 54k, and put 20k into it...then sold it for 139k owner financed..after the 10% down, i think the note was for around 125k..the note was sold for just around 100k if i remember correclty..maybe a little less (i really can't remember right now)..anyways, i had enough spread that after collecting the 13,900 downpayment and selling the note, i did ok...your numbers look a little tight...there were closign costs to sell the property on terms, and then there were BIG closing cost numbers to sell the note...i bought that property with a mortgage, so i had to sell on a contract for deed, so that affected my closign costs bc i had to convert the contract for deed to a note and deed of trust..if you're paying cash, then you can straight owner finance and probably lower your closing costs on the sell side of the note...depending on how good your buyer is, and how timely the payments are though, most offers i'm getting on my notes are between 60-80%...hope that helps...i've heard the best thing to do is find the old people who want a steady income stream secured by the real estate, but once they find out, i'm selling and getting out of the deal, i've had no such luck...ifyou do that, you're sure to get a higher offer than from a broker or institutional note buyer...sorry for the long post

Also consider the cost of losing tenants over high heat bills.I am assuming that the tenants already pay their heat and the situation is not that you are converting over from LL paid heat to tenant paid heat.

In all honesty though, these are things that are important to me persoanlly and the way I go about my business, not because of anyone elses opinion on what wholesaling should or should not be.The deals that I have turned up so far that have not worked out:1) An old assisted living facility that was halfway converted to apartments when the owner ran out of cash.