They say the reason for the April non - payment was they were busy dealing with one of the tenants having surgery in Indianapolis (about 70 miles away).

We doubt that  he sustained any injury on our property, he claimed that he was having surgery on his leg about 2 weeks before he sustained the injury, he may  even have moved out before the date of the injury. 

Other times of the year - if you find out your tenant is recovering from a surgery, have a flower delivery service drop off a $30 "get well" flowers - just did that one this week.

Tenant texted me on July 7 to let me know her husband  had fallen, broke his arm and had to have surgery.

If you need open heart surgery, do you assume that all doctors are the same?  

If you had to do surgery and the doctor gave you a 0.1% probability you would survive, is that acceptable? 

Sorry I have been a little distant these last few weeks I had surgery and have been a bit out of it. 

The solution here is very simple: don't talk to your family about real estate investing.Surgeons don't talk (likely) to their family about the science of surgery or the latest developments in it because it will be pointless conversation. 

We did work on it pretty diligently but both my wife and I had eye surgeries that delayed us, we worked on some other properties here and there, I made a trip to Africa for a couple weeks and so forth and so on.We'll have invested about $20k on top of the $6.5k we paid by the time we're done but it should be a low maintenance solid rental. (1 bed 1 bath will rent for $450.00)We can't sell it as we've invested about $50k worth of labor into it. lol.But when we bought it, it sure seemed like a great deal...

They feel Dentist and others in elective surgery field are going to be affected in a big way..