Also, don't lock yourself into a full year contract, so that if you are not happy, you can make a move with 30 days notice.

From my understanding if you have a 'single family lodger' and they violate the lease or stop paying rent (or even at the end of a lease) you can serve 30 days notice and then change the locks, no courts needed.

Hi guys, what does it mean when there’s a grey box on the outside of a house on the lock?

But I wouldn't want to lock myself in to September if I were in your position.We're getting into some legal areas of course, and I'm not an attorney, but based on my brief understanding of your situation, I would think you can "ask" for estoppel certificate (or maybe better, have your attorney ask for them) but the seller is under no obligation to provide them since it's not in the purchase and sale agreement.Your attorney may have something he can try to get the seller to sign, which is like an estoppel certificate, as part of the closing documents in order to justify your not getting a credit for security deposits.

Or forcefully removing your tenant, changing the locks and conducting a barricade protest operation.

(Already tried) I would like to lock the building down, but I don’t want to wait 2 years in order for him to have the money to pay off that LOC, not do I want to spend the $30k to pay it off for him.

Locks, video, cameras, thermostats, cleaners, pricing, etc.

I agree with @Michael Ohara that it is an option but I would lean toward a LOC since you would be able to lock in a lower rate on the LOC right now.

Should I work on finding a buyer before I lock them up?

I locked in 2.875% then they took forever to close and were busy so I thought I'd try to get competing offers especially after hearing the benchmark rate fell to zero.