https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/09/-sitting-on-record-amount-of-cash-and-not-tapping-it.html

Is this time different for homeowners? No atm analogies?

Going thru a bank/hard money lender to buy a dog to fix up imo is TOO EASY to do, Challenge yourself!

Or how about a passive method to discourage the criminal behavior and aggression?

Now when I come home whoever greets me at the door gets the first hug and kiss and sometimes that turns out to be the dog! 

I say it's a dog.

I'm going to have the outside vinyl sided which will be the only cash I have left in the deal.Actual Monthly Expenses:Mortgage Principal & Interest: $380Monthly Taxes: $68.92Monthly Insurance: $63.75Cap-Ex: $95Vacancy/Credit Loss: $47.50Property Management: $50Total Expense including estimate for vacancy and cap-ex: $715.17Rented @ $950 per monthExpected Cash Flow: $234.83Living Room:Master Bed/Bath:Under the cardboard box in the pictures were about a hundred cigarette burns in the carpet...Between the 5 people and 3 dogs living here when I bought it there wasn't a blade of grass in the back yard:Still haven't done the vinyl but it sod does wonders and it only took 1 pallet. 

This can be you source of leads for off market properties, owner financed deals or possibly as a “bird dog” for other wholesalers.

@Peter Prawel someone made a post here once talking about how his hard money lender kept backing out of his deals only to find out later tjat the lender bought three of them himself and kept it secret while still getting him to bird-dog more deals

Your in A thin margin where if your taxes go way up because it’s worth more ,it could wipe out any and all profit turning your investment into a dog that costs you money .

New Tenant signed the lease stating she has only 1 small dog, now she has brought home 5 cats to the Shared House she rents.