Among investors, most tend to specialize - sfrs, duplexes, and apartment buildings are three distinct animals - they appeal to different types of tenants, and the tenants kinda control the maintenance, management, and vacancy expenses.

Your best best is to get a copy of the lease (which should be a basic step in due diligence) and contact an attorney who specializes in tenant evictions in the area that the property is located so that he can review and advise you on the lease.

Dale Osborn - You are correct and that's what my partner and I are preparing to do now.

Real estate investors who buy foreclosures should be prepared to target those States in 2013.Posted by Corey Curwick of Private Money Utah on October 16, 2012.

Long story short, is an Accountant worth it for this number of properties or would I be money ahead using a tax software to prepare my taxes?

And some of the local companies that specialize in commercial have their own web sites.

One city had an assessor that was super prepared.

This is something I would like to own further down the road and was also wondering if there is any special type of government funding to build these, perhaps if you plan on making it low income living.

I like that... that way, I can take deposits only from those I'm actually preparing to research (which won't be most of them...)

Kind of takes the fun out of special touches if I can just paint and carpet and sell it for the same price. :)