The pastor's wife suggested he write a letter to the banks, to see if they'll take a tax write off, to donate it to the church, for the purpose of helping out the community; unlikely, but miracles happen.Looking at possible PML for it, but IDK if I can find someone interested, who wants to invest, without a lot of personal finance review...which I don't really have anything [my "can't undo" mentioned a big auto accident], and the church doesn't, either.

What was paid for the property in the past, or for the rehab, should be of no concern.

She tried to make it my problem, but I knew she had lots of relatives and was involved in her church with a pastor who came to visit her.  

Its always striking how often small time landlords won't call me back when I call about a past or current tenant.I always return calls about my tenants as soon as possible because I know how important it is for landlords to get a timely response as they consider an application.I'd say they are hypocrites, but they are not necessarily since some may be the type of landlords who are too lazy to call landlords references when evaluating an application.

I advertised a 2 bedroom apartment that I can usually get $1,200 empty  for and was asking $1,635.00.. well I signed the lease last week.. and have procured all of the things I will need from a consignment shop.. in total I spent almost $1,600 ..so i will pay myself back in 4 months.. after that it is all profit.. so of course my wheels started turning and I cant stop thinking if I can do this with at least half of my units.. 30 x $400 a month = $12,000 a month profit from renting people my furniture.. err. thats $144,000 a year... just for the furniture.. minus my investment of $48,000 furnishing the apts..I am looking for advice from anyone who has don this in the past or still does it??

We currently have 3 houses rented to friends, including the pastor of our church.

I am a pastor so you can trust me.

I want tenants who meet my criteria currently, not in the past or in the future.There are tenants out there who are still working.

I am in real estate investing, to be able to free myself from my 9 to 5 job and hopefully to answer God's call in my life as a full time minister or Pastoral Ministry.

(Past or Present) Good Luck!