One bought crack and therefore didn't have the money for the rent.

Look for signs of moisture from above- peeling or cracking ceiling paint (or worse!)

As I understand it you can have an engineer and/or tax professional do the chattel appraisal.

They don't lose that training easy and most are great successful employees because they continue that training into their professional life.

Focus on yourself and your relationships with professionals and other investors and go from there.

This way, the tenants become much more invested in maintaining the property and believe they got a great deal on the place making them much more likely to stay long term.† If you hire professional property management make sure you pay based on percentage of rents collected so you don’t incur excess expenses on vacancies.If you have multiple back up exit strategies you can go forward with confidence on any deals.† Just make sure you increase the spread you normally work with to give yourself the most options.

And as a professional photographer, I have to say your profile photo is excellent :D

Cast iron can crack, something both me and my inspector missed on this last house.

Thanks Jon,I am going to try to talk to some professionals about this.

My neighbors understood some English and that’s expected since most young professionals do have some command of the language but when you’re living in a community and are hoping to integrate, language can be a barrier - I failed at making that effort.