The purchaser could wind up being another existing partner, or it could be a partner's uncle who everyone loves, or the psychopath across the street who spends her days staring at you without blinking.

I've had situations where my buyer's psychopathic attorney calls him up after the title report comes in, "Rick, DO YOU KNOW THERE ARE LIENS AGAINST THE HOUSE???

And the preferable prospect for a Rental, is Neurotic, as one stage of said illness, & preferable to deal with, than a psychopath.

I have looked high and low, but the tax collectors office doesn't seem to have an online public registry of owners, and the town tax collector acted like I was a psychopath when I asked if she had contact info for the current owner.My best assumption is that it was an elderly couple, and the house got left to a family member or something because somebody pays the taxes every year, but the house isn't used and needs work.

In my mind, I thought that was a pretty fair compromise considering that the lease specifically said the tenant could not make repairs or changes first without prior written consent and that the lease stated that they needed to contact me by phone if there are any problems.But, my tenant is psychopath.

Notice how unsuccessful real estate investors all have one thing in common: they weren't selective enough in their deals and decided to enter into very marginal or worse deals.If you could be just 0.1% as selective in real estate as a typical 21 year old girl is with dating, either on Tinder or some dating website looking for a hot looking Chad or Brad that isn't psychopathic, and that looks financially stable and reasonable, then you will succeed in the game of real estate.

The tenant snuck a cat in and the cat destroyed the place.Longer-term rentals are less favorable to me personally because they bring in way less money than Airbnb, the documentation is tedious, and getting a tenant who is a complete psychopath (raging tantrums, bulimic episodes, never bothered to clean, police calls, etc.) is never any fun.If you're on the fence deciding whether to rent longer-term or Airbnb, I would highly recommend Airbnb all day long. 

But not by much my brothers and sisters are not the psychopaths that we have been made out to be in the media.

Unless you are a psychopath, you aren't going to make it far in life by have selfish goals.

After more than 25 years dealing with all sorts of good people, rotten scoundrels & once in a blue moon psychopaths, all you need is one psycho to end the need to be "the owner", and you will eventually get one.