Haha I didn't even get into the details of how cleaning up after the coroner removes a body is so much cheaper when you're local, when someone OD's, offs themselves or get's murdered in your property.

There often is an aura of mystery around installment sales. 

Same intel that pointed me to saying rates will be at the lowest in any 18-24 months span during Q1 '23 back in Q4 22 when things were getting murdered, and clearly lots were advised that as we saw some aggressive Q1 '23 folks in REI.This is incredibly hard to pick and in my opinion the best solution is still to be quite conservative, but not stop investing.

I'm wondering how many just sent the deposit in to the person claiming to be the "owner".Here in the south you can sometimes (literally) get away with murder if you claim to be some type of reverend/ minister/man/woman of god/whatever which is exactly what this scammer was claiming.I report the ads to craigslist, they are pulled, only to show up again a few days later.

@Vishal Amin Congrats on the deal, and solving the mystery of sub $100k lending. 

I suppose we could go back and fourth on the validity of your example of the rent / fight / murder, but for now the purpose of what I am saying here is if a customer isn't comfortable with the contract, their time is better spent moving on to a different PM than spending time and money trying to change their contract, cuz it ain't happening.

I can't imagine your plumbing bills over trying to find the source of this mysterious odor with disappears when plumbers show up.My question would be how difficult would it be to find a replacement tenant if you were to release him from his lease?

Appreciation is far more valuable for the seasoned investor and it's no mystery why the BP podcast has been talking about that over cash flow a lot in there more recent episodes.

However I feel the PM should have notified me early on about the complaints from tenants and non-receipt of rents from the housing authority (it is still a mystery on why the rents have not been received). 

Despite obstacles Miamis real estate market stood strong with 96% of the asking price received—a dedication to excellence.Time—the mysterious currency of existence—seemed to yield to Miamis influence.