I simply figured that because of the prorations and fees, etc., I had extra money to spend on the rehab.

They may choose the best story to tell, but simply painting best case scenarios is not the norm.

This usually doesn't work in favor of the landlord... that's why you have to read the tenant and know which ones you can work with and which ones you just cut ties with

The reason for me is this: If you have a tenant that has their gas cut off in December and it gets turned on, under your account, you can't (legally) turn it off.

I appreciate your input though, because you give me a ton to think about, and really cut to the chase as to the quality of this one.

Its simply your monthly rent.

The lender isn't going to cut you a commission check on your own short sale.

I simply put a 60 business day assignable contract on the property, and simply by word of mouth sold it for a $15,000 profit within just a few days.With that said, all I spend my days doing, is looking for deals and making offers.The best piece of advice I can give you, is never ever ever look at a property without making some sort of offer on it.

If you and your attorneys with the seller play games back and forth it will only cost you the buyer and seller a bunch of money and make the attorneys happy.If the seller wasn't of sound mind at the time then they could simply void the listing agreement and withdraw the property off the market.

Getting allot of site errors, cant even contact Joshua about them, Had to re join just to reply to posts.As far as some of the questionsStrip center is 25 years old, I keep everything maintained, I always have people asking if I have space.My parcel is all flat, anything that isn't building or parking lot I had graded and seeded with grass, it is kept weed free, cut, and its like a park like setting. the 24 acre parcel has hills, and wet areas that DNR wont let be touched.I don't need to sell, but also know if the corner develops my site is worth much more, so if I hinder it I shoot myself in the foot.One developer brought up an easement to me for an entrance, his question was would I GRANT him an easement, not sell him one,that was back when a large food chain wanted the corner, he was going to develop it and then lease it to them( pick n save), not sure if I can name them.Anyway I got skidish with developers and brokers, they would call and want to meet at the local StarBucks, try and get me to tell them what it would take for me to sell, tell me they were going back to draft up an offer, I would never hear back, one local broker drafted up an offer to purchase, the offer was transferable, it was full of errors the city wasn't right, the county wasn't right, it was just a mess, so much that I began to think the commercial real estate world was full of shysters.I had a broker list my site for lease a few years back, asked me if I wanted to sell because of the corner being up for sale, I said maybe it all depends, so to make a long story as short as possible, he would tell potential Tennant' that I was thinking of selling, so not to depend on long term leases, then tells me lets just list it for sale, its not leasing out !