We screen heavy and our tenants usually make great income, no criminal history’s, and are great tenants.

If they don't complete the deal in 2 years, there is no messiness as their option period simply expires and the purchase portion of the deal is done.

I'm no fan of Section 8.  

Since 2014 debt is considered no different from equity in determining if an investment is a security.  

We had a Zoom call this week with a couple of the heavy hitting closing attorneys in SC.

She felt threatened and called the cops as well as stating in the group chat that it was unacceptable.

One potential strategy to consider is waiting to sell the property until after you leave Japan, as this might exempt you from Japanese capital gains tax if you are no longer considered a resident for tax purposes.

I would call some local leasing brokers in your area before you have any non-refundable earnest money to get an idea of the tenant demand for something like this and if you are new to retail leasing/investments I would highly recommend you hire one of those brokers to negotiate the lease for you.

It's called supply and demand.

I did the liquid Termidor treatment on 3 duplexes I have in Tallahassee and it worked great, that was a year ago now and no issues since.