While either can be easy or difficult to manage, differnt kinds of problems, it's the personality of the tenant, IMO.IMO you should spend no more than a couple hours a month on actual management per unit, a phone call, collection and bookkeeping and coordinating maintenance.

It's not easy.

This would be an easy fix if the case in your area.

Sierra Murphy Its pretty easy to get one.

There are many options, some do it yourself using easy to do templates that walk you through, and those done by pros.

You could always leverage into an apartment building ( 5 units or more ).Value is based on cash flow and cap rates instead of comparable sales approach.Economy of scale is easier.Just depends on long term goals.Right now debt service is cheap.It's easy to take equity out and put it to work for returns above debt service.When prices and interest rates rise that will be harder to do on the purchasing end.

Yet, I was also at a salary level in a unique position that was not easy or possible to duplicate.

No no no....K.Marie...what I meant was...if I were to try to TYPE what I do...the responses I give etc....it would put people to sleep....It really is easy and simple, but to TYPE OUT what I do, or how I present this or that, although simple, would BORE PEOPLE TO DEATH!!!

At the face of it, this seems an easy decision.

That's why, to get to your point finally, I understand now that I really need to force him to sell and make it easy for him to pay me back (with interest).I thought that with the LLC in his name, all written up in legal language, would work out.