Originally posted by @Michael Plante: Have found and purchased 6 houses off of ZillowJust sold a quarter of a million dollar house on Zillow with multiple offers by myself after it sat for 6 months with a real estate agent with not a single offer Very interesting!

You as a listing agent represent a Seller, who may or may not have a building suitably zoned for plant husbandry (which varies greatly state-to-state); if you source a ready, willing and able Buyer who happens to grow or otherwise manufacture marijuana products what where are you exposed from a legal standpoint?

Many people say they will wait and never end up doing anything.I was in your shoes 2 years ago, couldn’t find what I was looking for in Tri State area so I decided to go to the market as a novice not knowing anything about Charlotte just the research that I’ve done and planted my roots.What I do is I buy for Positive cash flow now not for the future, I don’t even consider appreciation that’s the icing in the cake a bonus.If I can get the positive cash flow/ return I’m looking for now I pull the trigger.The way I see it when the market turns and becomes a buyer market I will be a more season investor and will be ready to bounce on great deals.

I agree that the tenants will ultimately suffer the most, through higher rents.

If the rents you mentioned are actual current rents for the building in question then I am guessing the apts are outdated and need some work and possibly the building suffers from deferred maintenance.

For example, if we had to suffer a larger loss, we would split that loss (according to the 50/50 idea), but I would not participate in splitting his loss of initial capital (the money he put down).

Once him and his girlfriend moved in, they had got the lower unit a plant as a welcoming gift and in my opinion are just really great people.  

Put hanging plants with no water system that took a lot of maintenance and eventually died.

Here is a bay area software company laying off 1150 people http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Autode...Brick and mortar retail looks to be suffering too as more people shop online. 

But now they are trying to sue my brother for $44k for damages and pain/suffering.