If we didn't collect disputed payments from landlords, Cozy would be at a loss, and hugely vulnerable to fraud ourselves.

When this information is removed and not available for others to see, it lets other honest investors vulnerable to these bad operators and potentially lose out on lots of hard earned money. 

The down side is that it also makes you vulnerable to being completely wiped out, if you're poorly running your real estate investments.

Pro-Tip: We don’t always know what we need until we get vulnerable and identify those limiting beliefs.

Things tend to hit us all at once when we're most vulnerable including job losses.

However, my investments were highly leveraged, and as such my portfolio was vulnerable to economic conditions, internationally, nationally and local.  

The advantages to me are: I would get the same retirement income, reduce work associated with ownership, eliminate vulnerability to changing market and interest rates and eliminate the emotional pain associated with giving so much money (especially interest) to the bank.I've given enough to my kids, so who cares about them :) so my perfect scenario would be to do the above and, at some point, to sell everything so that I can live off the equity.

The most vulnerable (broken homes, lack of leadership at home, poor, etc.) are the most likely to be "sold" on college, in my anecdotal experience.And don't kid yourself, they are absolutely being sold. 

My research into Detroit showed that it is very vulnerable to swings in the market, and the economy depends only on a couple main industries. 

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