Financial, legal, marital, mechanical, physical, emotional, vehicle problems and just overall bad luck.Everyone I rent to does contract work in a refinery. 

(A big concern of mine when it comes to long distance investing) I'm assuming the physical trip to Huntsville was a big difference.

Does one LLC own another or both are owned by a trust or a physical person?

I live in CA and will be doing business in CA as well as some states (selling some products retail online retail and selling wholesale to retailers in CA and other states to sell in their physical shops).

The true point I'd like to make for lessons learned is recognizing the value of being able to physically see and touch the location for the simple purpose of solidifying our understanding of how the site operates and being able to stand behind our numbers confidently.

I'm told we are looking at a 60-day notice period, followed by a 60-day period to get through the court actions and finally get the Sheriff out there and physically evict the tenants if they are still there.

Not to mention in the photo i took of him signing the contract he is clearly bigger, stronger and in better physical shape than i am... and i'm 27!

THAN we have our infrastructure, the physical offices, computers, software, electricity, heating, rent, cleaning, cost of hiring staff as recruitment is not free, than compliance staff who do not actively run files but keep our leases up to date TO PROTECT YOU, communicate with the dozens of local regulations, vendor management, vendor recruitment, accounting staff, on and on and on and on. 

I don't allow dogs and will evict any tenant the first time they jump in my 92 pound wife's face like they want to get physical.

Many of prospective buyers seeking finance on my Socal properties tend to be the old fashion type that are not interested in such venues as lendingtree nor eloan that tend to hook them up with a long distance over the...