The real estate in Alabama is so cheap and in this college town finding tenants won't be a huge issue. 

Hi Justin, seasoning will not be the biggest issue.

In addition, you need to know the current Legal Rents in the records of HCR (DHCR) for each apartment as they will be rents that you will most likely be stuck with and you will not have the ability to increase rents to cover Rehab or your investment.

The other issue, as it has been stated, is that it becomes financially tricky to take a property out of the portfolio, so you also sacrifice flexibility at a time when you begin to scale and flexibility can be really important. 

Together, we fixed issues and turned things around.

The issue is there are too many of these “gurus” on social media that are preaching S8 to everyone and how great it is.

Our current rent is $2600 I want to offer to pay $3000 for as long as she wants 1-15 years and then pay $600k My main question is whether that type of structure of offer makes sense legally or technically or practically. 

I have tried email and Zoom calls but have not been able to get a straight answer as to what the underlying issue is which makes me automatically assume something shady is going on.

If not, you might have to pursue legal means which would differ depending on your state/county.Honestly, I hate security deposit dispositions.

I am currently in the process of leasing up a vacant property we’ve been renovating however and that has SIGNIFICANTLY increased the amount of people time that I have had recently so for you if that is a huge issue I would not recommend getting involved with any vacant properties that involve total lease ups or else you might just prefer utilizing a property manager.