I am a newer agent serving the South Sound area of Washington State, who bought her first investment property at age 21, with cash, and no construction experience.

My investor buyers are reluctant because the loan (8.5%) is too steep.I know Phill Groves had been teaching his AMPS system where investor/wholesalers serve as transaction engineers and link up the seller and the retail buyers for a fee.

Endure high turnover, vandalism, never finding a PM to serve your property, etc. while the professional tenants in this area take advantage of you.Option #3 - Spend $500 to have the property boarded up/secured.

Not sure if it's legal, but perhaps it will serve as a reasonable deterrent.

I've chosen not to renew my tenants lease and had him served a 30 day no cause.

I hope that you do everything in your power to warn other people about him (Yelp, Google reviews, etc.)... in short, I hope that he never gets the opportunity to rob someone again.I also hope that your story serves as a beautiful warning to the next investor, dealing with the next Robert Gonzalez.

@Robert Taylor Keep in mind that when the 30 letter was served, there was no indication this was to be considered a companion animal.

For serving legal notices, you need to find out what is common and required for your locale.

I am having the title company double check on proper serving but I am assuming I am ok in giving this away to VA, goodwill, etc.

Rob/Sherry,We discussed an LLC but it seemed like it was an unnecessary partnership that could be better served in a JV agreement and a note.