My success on the $15k owed to me in damages and missed months was an email the length of a dissertation with a list of excuses including mold (nope, $800 of testing confirmed, they had a pet peeing on the carpet creating a bad smell) , _______'s cancer which came and went quickly, "having kids is hard", 1 of them starting college, and then an expected disappearance.

Ask yourself what you would rather see when you look in the mirror: a person who collected "their money" at any cost, or someone who wished a cancer patient well as they embarked on the always hard, usually uncertain journey of starting cancer treatment.I know which choice would allow me to look myself in the mirror and still respect myself.

She was a cancer survivor so we felt compassion.

Put in tenants without a deposit or first month because the PM is "dying from cancer and took his eye off the ball".Have the place wrecked several times because the PM is "dying from cancer and took his eye off the ball".

I have dealt with plenty of tenants that got sick ( cancer) or PSD real bad..

The financial crisis added roughly 500,000 additional cancer deaths world wide between 2008 and 2010. 

Or is it a medical debt from a few years ago when their child got sick with cancer that they just haven't been able to keep up with and therefore has dragged down their credit?

They left me a nice water bill, stiffed me on rent (I was a nice guy -- one of them had some cancer issues -- that was the story).  

Hey, they're wholesalers, they all think they have the cure to cancer. 

Of course I would be wary of any and all neighborhoods nearby as this sort of thing is like a cancer that spreads.