All of the units are currently occupied but you could always evict (without cause) one of the tenants when you purchase it."

After the second snaking of the drain I had the drain guys run a camera and they diagnosed the problem to be a poorly pitched pipe which is causing waste to build up etc. 

I have a $10k reno budget to add laminate when the tenants move out and create the third bedroom in the coach house.The fifth one had a huge updated upper unit but the lower is what they call a "Polish Flat" where the bottom of the window sills are right at grade and cause water to constantly come in.

I was beginning to think that this "back-up bid" stuff was a bunch of crap, cause I've never had one of mine accepted as a back-up (even though I always indicate that they can hold mine as a back-up).  

There is no harm in doing that.

Using security deposit for repairs: Do you mean do we deduct cost of repairs after they leave (caused by them) from security?

The tenants didn't cause any problems, they were just old (not the tenants). 

Let's hope this public discussion will cause the portal to do the right thing here now and in the future.

Would that cause any challenges for the person who is buying subject to?

In fact, in a lot of ways, it isn't specifically the fact that I was involved in real estate investing that was so alarming to him, the whole idea of investing outside of traditional blue chip stocks and mutual funds was completely foreign as well, and had I said that I was day trading Forex (I'm not, but know people who are successful doing so), had he the slightest clue of what I was talking about, he probably would respond in a similar manner as to what he did with my rental property business.And had I been interested in starting a sandwich shop for example, certainly that also would have caused a certain amount of discouragement from.