You will have bought yourself time to learn, put yourself in the right learning environment (REIA), made some money, will have done your first deal, and you will probably have had the opportunity to learn and / or do a wholesale deal.At that point, you'll be teaching someone else. :)

If you are operating buildings in rent controlled areas or other gov-mint-laden environments you can expect to get slums because the politicians don't understand basic economics.

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So the question is was this negligence on your part or not which comes down to did you make all reasonable attempts to maintain a suitable living environment?

You're killing a lot of it and eliminating the environment for its return.

Actually, I hired an F&I guy out of a large dealership as a mortgage loan officer, as I suspected, he couldn't cut it and much had to do with bad habits from personal loans and the auto environments.  

It's a controlled environment. 

The idea of house hacking in this uncertain economic environment would certainly be attractive to me! 

I used this to help teach financial ideas to coworkers in a retail environment. 

It's a very congested, urban environment and all our other spaces are claimed by other renters who leased early and chose their spots promptly.