. - the person I mentioned in that Jan 23 post is still fighting with his insurer ...

You can discredit them in court.Typically these tenants get a pro bono attorney to try to file a bogus claim.The attorney hopes your insurance pays out instead of fighting it in court.The insurance then proceeds to raise your annual rates or drops you all together.You have to make sure to your insurance company and this attorney that you will vigorously defend yourself to the end before giving them one cent.Now if they have everything documented with date,pictures and went to see the doctor that day etc. then maybe there is a case.Most of the time these tenants are looking for a free lunch.

Zoning is next to impossible without some deep pockets to support attorney fees to fight zoning boards.

Condo boards are notorious for in fighting, and self-dealing and overall ineptness.

That will make it even harder to clean the place up and evict the non-payers.Lower C and D class properties will cash flow hand over fist... but you'll need to fight with both hands to manage the properties.IMO, sounds like you're buying yourself a job, at least in the interim.

I wrote some papers in college relating to the subject, BILLIONS spent fighting pot when hundreds of millions could be made.

Jake, can't follow the link, but without reading it, I can see the public purpose, however getting between a lender and a borrower may have some legal issues that they may not be able to afford to fight.

It's better to spend your time and energy finding a new tenant than fighting a jerk, although your ego might feel otherwise.

Values on the adjoing subdivision will probably go down, due to the increased traffic, noise involved (there will probably be live entertianment) fights in the parking lots etc.

I'm ready to fight back if they try to charge me for the extra days- but I don't particularly feel that it will be an issue.