I was ready to go through the remediation and the attorney wanted me to find alternate housing etc..

Helping an otherwise good, low income tenant through a tough spot is better than dealing with the alternatives.

I think you need to discover and total all liens attached to the property to determine if sufficient equity exists to make paying off the liens a better alternative than losing your investment in the superior lien foreclosure.Hopefully you only spent a small amount at the auction.

We have one here that runs sales on a cheap carpet that is very similar to what is popular here locally.

Two recent examples:Reagan raised taxes almost 1% of GDP during his time in office (the largest peace-time tax increase in history); he "negotiated with terrorists" (Gorbachev was the most evil person on the planet back then, according to most Americans); he fought for the rights of gays and lesbians 30 years before it was popular; and he granted amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.

Ask yourself would the buyer of house A consider house B as an alternative?

Fraud is popular, civil and crimnal penalties.

(trust me, everybody loses) Second, you can enforce the rules and regulations to the best of your ability but sometimes you just got to go with an alternative.

Mechanical Engineering seems to be a very popular degree field here on biggerpockets.Congrats on degree and welcome

For you, all those issues that were mentioned are likely not a big deal, people buy houses and don't like their neighbors so don't stress about your tenants, remember this is business not a popularity contest, and sometimes you will have to deal with the not fun part of the business which is tenants you won't like.Originally posted by Harry Campbell:2.