Also bring quarters for the vending machine for him (he will love you for that).

If it's a retail tire store wharehouse, something like a car wash or car repair shop it may not be as bad, but you'll have environmental issues, testing, engineer certifications, inspections and tenant histories for past business operations that can cost you.10% not near enough.

Are you mostly interested in a cash flow machine OR are you interested in social entrepreneurial aspects of the property (no wrong answer here)?

The title company and I are both leaving message after message (every call goes straight to an answering machine), and we have no physical address for them, just a P.O Box.

Here's a couple of the articles:http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/08/debt-collecting-machine/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/08/local-laws-do-little-to-protect-homeowners/Just be careful.

The response was he doesn't want to rock the boat.

maytag machines are pretty affordable and reliable.I still don't provide washer and dryer because it's an extra thing to break, and bad tenants can steal them

It was already fixed in the inside, and the problem was all the gutters flowed to a common point near the foundation and plainly visible if someone looked as the soil was washed away near the gutter drain.

All in all you can wash out the fluff and stuff and get good advice from many here.

That said, I am a buy and hold investor so I am not looking for 40 deals a week to feed a wholesaling machine.