These sorts of things happen frequently and there is no change to the overall deal.

Its not cheap, they break down frequently and breakdown the more they get used.

So I happen to pass by a property I believe to be vacant frequently and out of curiosity I have looked into seeing if it is indeed abandoned.

A buy and hold property is a long term investment, so you had better like the idea of doing taxes, accounting, and management with this guy for the next 5+ years.I use partnerships frequently for flips, and I have one long term rental partnership which I did early on in my investing career.

From what I've gathered a lot of property managers do this to discourage frequent transferring among tenants, because the cost of cleaning up after them, and then preparing the other apartment for move-in can cost owners thousands of dollars.

Intermediate and new investors frequently have day jobs and can't attend during the day.So the groups meet when the largest numbers of attendees are available.

I use a month to month rental agreement, and am not looking to turn over the apartment frequently, so this maybe I should ignore this until it becomes an issue to me.

I'm actually up near GR fairly frequently, as the majority of my large extended family lives in GR/Zeeland/Holland.From what I understand, Grand Haven is a great place for investment if you can create a good funnel/pipeline.

I can check out my properties frequently (at least from the outside).

Yes, this happens pretty frequently inside of 180 days, and definitely inside of 90.