Hey BP community, looking for your thoughts here on this matterWe have a buy & hold, 2-family under contract finally at a price where everything makes sense for us.1 unit is vacant, 1 unit is occupied.We are still waiting to see the current lease agreement (if there is one) for the occupied unit.During our walk-through we took pictures of everything and when my business partner was reviewing the photos he found a picture with a safe, a drug scale, and some other tool apparently used for measuring drugs in the tenants bedroom.We are expecting some trouble getting the existing tenants out but wanted to gather advice to see our options here.Is eviction our only real way out?

Think Amazon.I would assume they would need to be an agent or a broker in order to sell them to you safely.

Since the property has been on and off the market since 2014, is it safe to say that I could negotiate a price like half of whats being asked?

- Safe investment through a family member with a situation where they were unable to purchase the home at the time How did you finance this deal?

look for nice, safe base hits

Our plan is a "Safe Harbor" plan which just means it's not very customizable.

I use FNBO Direct, an online & mobile bank, they have 2.25% right now which is decent, not the best but you want to keep your money safe especially if you're deploying it soon.

To be safe, I'd figure at least 6 months; 2 months for reno, 2 months on market, 2 months to close.Being such an inexpensive deal, there isn't a lot of room for error. 

Setting your financing question aside, as a general rule of thumb, you want to buy properties that are in safe, desirable neighborhoods because turnover is a cash-flow killer.

I thought South San Jose was safe and pretty much crime free.