All Forum Posts by: Dylan Legg

Good evening BP,

At the time I’m writing this it’s 11:27PM CST.

I just left a my unit after the final walkthrough and key return.

For some backstory, I bought this duplex in August for myself to live in with a VA Loan.

For the first walkthrough, we told the tenant (on the side I would be moving into) that there lease would not be renewed. We gave them the cash for keys offer, and they later turned it down stating that didn’t have enough time. Which could have been fair it would have given them about 3 weeks. I still stated if they would like to leave sooner they had the opportunity to do so.

Weeks went bye, which turned into months and still no response as to when they would vacate. I asked and asked and asked and got the same response: “I will let you know when I’m ready”. With about a week left and no time given, I told them that if they don’t have a time, that they had until 11/30 at 5PM to do the final walk through and return keys. They said they could to do it at 9PM, so I agreed.

I arrived tonight with 2 very p*ssed off men, asking me if I think it’s ok to take someone’s home away from them, and that they had to miss their thanksgiving because of me, asking me how I could treat someone like this, and that they were sick of my tricky games.

Very flabbergasted I didn’t know what to say to any of this as I walked up alone and bombarded with these questions and statements filled with rage and anger..

I just kept saying “it’s not like that, it’s not like that”.

Which it wasn’t... I was extremely friendly with them during my entire 3 months of ownership. I have no idea where any of this came from.. Now my fiancé is terrified of moving in and frankly I’m not sure what to do.

Any advice on this would be super appreciated. This is my first property, and under some pretty crappy circumstances.

@Jaysen Medhurst , @Josh Oaten, @Justin Kane Thank you for the advice.  It's funny, as soon as I posted this thread, I was listening to a BiggerPockets podcast and the guest of the show was in the same position I'm in and said how he ended up doing all of things you've listed. Thanks again guys!

@Vlad Denisov I had not thought about this approach yet. Thank you for the advice. 

So I live in the Saint Louis area, and I am looking for a Multi-family home (Duplex or Triplex) to buy in the Western, Southwestern, or Southern Suburbs of Saint Louis.  I'm looking to "house-hack" with this first property, by living in one side and renting out the other.  

The problem is there are virtually none available. I look through Zillow on a daily basis, and my agent has a blanket area search set through her MLS that automatically sends me multi-family homes in that area once they come available. By using this strategy I'm getting about one result a week, and of these results, only 1/4 of these are contenders.

I'm thinking about starting Direct Mail to the owners of these properties in the area of interest. 

My question: Are there other methods I could use to help quicken this search for a good fit within the area I'm looking?