IMHO there are no perfect tenants.BTW, my mother smokes and lives in the lower of my duplex.

I understand that the rent is guaranteed but I've seen what happens to a property when people don't have enough money to "live".In addition the son (30 something) will be living there as his mother's care giver and he says his credit doesn't matter because he is only an occupant.

Hello everyone, After a long day of demolition at my mother-in-law's clinic I came home and calls started coming in from my signs marketing.

i don't have much experience, but your experience reminds me of my last few months, my mother in law wanted me to help her find an investment property in NJ and i spent a lot of time researching, but not being able to be there and tour the neighborhoods make it hard. not to mention ever been there, just to her house. it was also hard because she had me search ALL of northern jersey.i found her an investment here, and moved on it in a heart beat, because i knew the market. and she only wanted an investment property, nj/pa didn't matter.

thanks Ned,It will be an investment property, my mother gave me title to, it has a small loan balance that will stay in her name.

What about haunting by ex-mother-in-laws? 

While I don't yet have a real estate attorney or a team or anything, I have a decent lead that I don't know how to handle.I've been pursuing a Driving for Dollars property (near my house) for a while and today - from talking to the neighbor - was able to 1) find out the full story2) get the name and ph# of the owner (it's a son who would be selling the house for his elderly/dying mother who is in a nursing home)3) give them my business card and say that I was potentially interested in buying the house4) Find out that no one is planning to move into the home and that they intend to sell it when the elderly mother passes away.

Her mother recommended she call me because my unit sounded nice.  

Unless, you can get a deal off market of course :-) But I have a feeling that everyone and their mother sends letters regularly to all MF owners, which gives them even more power to increase their prices.  

I had to explain I was not their Mother , Father ,Banker, Lawyer ,  or shrink.