I have spent the last several months on the verge of a stress induced stroke and a couple of weeks ago I decided "&^%* it, its out of MY control".Here is the summary.

Different strokes for different folks.

This is not clear in the bill and is not defined in the bill so whatever authority has the power to decide can literally put a landlord out of business or into mortgage default with the stroke of their pen.It is not clear what happens if a landlord proffers a new lease that is not "substantially the same", the tenant can refuse to sign and presumably remain in the property, allowing their dog to piss in the same spot on carpet everyday, or allowing their child to practice karate punches into the drywall, but hopefully with the requirement to continue paying their original rent amount. 

In some cases, perhaps marginally - instead of swinging a wrench, they needed to know how to hit a couple of keyboard strokes and maybe restart the program if it locked.

Different strokes for different folks, but as a young-ish investor who studies older investors and their methods to see what work over the long term, the vast majority of very successful investors who have survived multiple market corrections tend to view debt as a tool, but one that should be used carefully due to its risks.

I don't think anyone I have talked to in Banking believes that at this time.. at least I am still getting some pretty sizable credit facilities and some that are so big they Know I cant stroke a check to pay them back they know the only way to retire the loan is to build the homes and sell them..

For someone like me who is getting stroke codes as I write this, getting a discount on properties is a minor issue.

It may be a stroke of luck, but I just picked up all new cabinets for a property that were half off at HD.

Different strokes.

Nixon took us off the gold standard by executive order.We could go back on the gold standard at any time with, as Lanny Davis said during the Clinton Administration, "stroke of the pen, law of the land, kind of cool."