A good way to know if this is the case is to send a fake tester email to your realtor pretending to be someone interested in the deal asking for a showing.

@Michael Noto I understand not throwing the other tenant under the bus as others have suggested, but I can’t tip toe around and pretend that I was in the neighborhood stopping by..oh I smelled it while I was driving by.

Not only are they watching to many live cop show and are making undercover contact with the phone number on the sign pretending selling a home to obtain the information of the offender, but our local magistrate also usually increase the fine per sign when someone who was caught try to fight it.I haven't seen a bandit sign in my town for years...

Snowflakes may want to skip this post for fear of having their feels hurt.Step one would be to cut the bull **** about these people.Let's stop pretending that they are all mentally ill.

You have never pretended to know something here, and usually see more than I do.

Pretend you’re a tenant looking to move into the area.

Here’s the thing that you must realize… This isn’t free money…The lender takes on a certain degree of risk in exchange for the possibility of a return on their investment..Pretend you’re the lender… You lend a young man $200,000 cash to buy ahouse… In exchange, he has to pay you $1000 a month… (not a bad deal for the young man, considering the fact that without this loan he wouldn’t have the money to buy the house… For just $1000 a month, the seller handover the keys to a house… that’s A huge opportunity… That many countries in the world don’t get to enjoy this luxury of finance!)

The PM we had for some of our properties showed them to whoever asked-we decided there has to be a better way and we ended up ditching the PM-for a variety of reasons.We have also had our fair share of posers-people who work for Fair Housing and other gov't programs pretending to be prospective tenants and hoping to catch LL in the act of discriminating or whatever.Believe me they are calling you too.

You can still have a manager run those other units and pretend you are just another tenant (one that doesn't pay rent) but it will get you into a property that will hopefully cash flow once you move out with as little money into it as possible.My other suggestion would be to invest with partners or in a syndication.

I am waiting for NJ's 2nd wave and hoarding cash.Run your business like a business- and by that I mean, pretend you have investors to answer to.