If someone with a 10 year old credit card with no late payments adds you as an "authorized user," you will inherit that 10 year credit history most of the time -- so you can in theory be 19 years old and have a FICO score otherwise only obtainable by a 28 year old.

The lender inherits the problem property...kind of like REI's version of a broken used car.If not collateralized - Proactive Risk Control is usedProactive Risk Control - Steps for Loan/Cash transfer and Use:1 - Part of the Loan/Cash is used for a Down Payment on a NNN Commercial investment.2 - NOI from NNN must cover the following (but doesn't need to make a profit) -   A - Debt Service on NNN   B - Interest Payment on Original Loan   C - Credit Partner % (if you are not the credit partner)   Note:  Due to the nature of the NNN lease, all that is needed here is for the NOI to cover the above (A - C). 

I suppose we should use UPS.Ooops,UPS loses family's $846K inheritance, refunds $32 shipping feeThe intended $846,000 delivery was a bank draft, which still hasn’t been refunded 10 months later.

Inherited tenants are always risky. 

After a few phone calls we discovered the seller was a landlord by inheritance and wasn’t savvy with the process.

I inherited a single family house in a nice neighborhood in PA. 

Discounts in excess of 20%, much more if inherited or the seller is facing time deadlines.No banks, no 'partners to check with', no messing around.

Don’t risk inheriting the seller’s errors and/or headaches.Whether your new purchase is meant to be owner occupied or an investment property, demand vacant possession or walk away.

Explain to them that if they sell, they likely will have substantial tax consequences but if you inherit the properties, they are "stepped up" on the tax basis.

Important to this discussion is that there was some commercial property my grandpa owned, which my dad then inherited, which in turn my brother and I inherited.