When it is consistently paid late each and has been for years, it's no different than being paid on time for years, just that I make 5% more I'm not a type of landlord who hopes or seeks predatory/abusive tenant situations where I can harvest fees from my tenants. 

Avocado green countertops and harvest gold appliances?

The owner is asking $59k and it rents for $675/mo, renter pays the utilities.Outside of this "C/D" deal, I am looking at a few multi-use commercial space in town to run my professional business from, so harvesting equity from this empty lot and having room on debt service ratios might be beneficial in the next year or so. 

I agree, getting my feet wet and doing it is part of the fruit I harvest. 

I doubt you can, not in the same area and condition.The name of the game when you're trying to grow a RE portfolio is equity harvesting.

It's against Craigslist's rules to harvest e-mail addresses on their site.

Other friends are tired of craigslist - they only get junk responses from email harvesters

Every time I play with snakes....Thank you for bringing to light the pain (not to mention the thousands and thousands of fees) to optimize ones ROI through equity harvesting, equity-stripping, leveraging your assets or whatever the latest 'sophisticated' way is to grow.  

My rentals provide me the long stability as a backup if I had to I could live in one of them.... they also give me some income to offset the high rents in my area and tax deductions I'd see from owning a primary.Maybe once I'm retired and empty nester I'd buy as at that point stability could help.... or maybe it gives me the freedom to move around again.My two best days as a homeowner were the day I bought my house (the American Dream) and the day I sold my house (harvesting my equity and having a major responsibility lifted off my shoulders).

Reiter, EsquireKaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & SteinUnion Meeting Corporate Center910 Harvest DriveP.O.