It was a win/win because with my guests going to dinner with a $50 gift certificate they felt like they were getting their meal paid for but the owner of the restaurant once told me that my average $50 gift certificate holder would spend a minimum of $75 while they were there on extras like appetizers and alcohol purchases that were typically big mark up items for him.

I actually had help from someone who reached out to me - trying to sit me down for a cup of coffee to learn about real estate investing - and since I don't drink coffee or alcohol, I countered with asking him to join me in picking up these cabinets.

Apartments might be a little quicker than SF homes, but we have an actual slide deck (on a tablet) to walk them trough the main issues and we have significantly fewer issues with people that went through our formal orientation @Marcus Auerbach I think we just proved that there are reasons you can make it work and reasons it doesn’t work under both scenarios.

I use Proper insurance, unwritten by Lloyds of London, for my STR - covers the extra issues you would expect from an STR like vandalism, alcohol liabilities, business interruption up $10k, hot-tub cooties etc.

Around here, that's how it's done.If he is truly alcoholic, I'd be concerned that he was mentally competent when he signed the contracts.

Hi Joanna,You can download the book's bonuses here https://www.biggerpockets.com/LandlordBookBonusIt's a zip file and mobiles/tablets may not be able to open zip files properly.

He’s an alcoholic and does not work.The police do nothing and show up hours after the call.

If you just want to calculate a mortgage payment that’s a free function of 10’s of not 100’s of free apps for your phone/tablet.

Drugs, alcohol, gambling, abuse.  

Lol, yeah, because everyone knows the cure to alcohol poisoning is MORE VODKA!