They haven't recovered from it yet.

One of the main reason the last recession took longer than it should to recover were people like you who saw success during the growth period and all of a sudden the recession hit with no contingency plan to keep your investment.

It is, therefore, possible for a grantee to receive no actual interest, and – because a quitclaim deed offers no warranty – have no legal recourse to recover any losses.

That being said, good luck ever recovering that money from them.

If you sell it can you recover all - or at least most - of the money you have invested?

From reading online, auctions on average only recover up to 37 percent of the owed mortgage.   

In poker, the chips from lost hands, are just in differents pile on the table...and can be recovered as long as you have chips left to stay in the game. 

Does anyone have any tips for working with a collections agency to both recover money and also flag a former tenant after a similar experience?

And maybe some of your repair expenses are one-offs that will not recur, at tleast not before recovering the expense several times over.

@Tom Gimer - correct on the title policy so I know there’s nothing else that I can recover there.