I learned that my personality did not work very well trying to extract money from the problem tenants.

We've explored donating copper and other potentially valuable parts of houses to those who'll take it, but they won't perform the removal and the cost to extract these things and have them "curbside" didn't pan out.

@Elliot - Cash strapped Towns/Cities are looking for revenue wherever they can and building/dump permits are an easy area to extract extra revenue from.

Building relationships can be a lot of work with a long time before seeing meaningful results.

You need proper legal advice on this one; someone posting on a forum isn't going to be able to give a meaningful answer.

So, one could use a 1031 exchange to sell one's property, defer the taxes from that sale, buy a new property, and restart the clock.http://www.finweb.com/taxes/real-estate-depreciation-and-tax-sheltering.htmlhttp://www.invest-2win.com/depreciation.htmlSecond, one might want to sell a smaller property to extract the capital to acquire a larger property.Third, the owner intends to move out of the area, and doesn't want to be a remote landlord.Fourth, divorce . . . need I say more?

Pre-qual's are about as meaningful as earnest money, you need someone who can actually get approved and close.In situations like this, you need to screen your buyers like tenants.

I started as an investor in my family's business and went out and got my license to better source deals and keep commissions in house.In my view, being a successful agent can afford you a living but being a successful investor is how you build meaningful, multigenerational wealth.

If the property appraises at $400K even 80% LTV would not allow any money extracted (Your current loan is at 81% LTV state if RE is valued at $400K).So you need an LTV above 80% for any extract of money. 

I'm even willing to pay to get these files, but the only person on Fiverr that came up had only a 1 rating.To further explain: I received an FTP site -> go to that site and get a directory/index of folders -> I click on the folder for the delinquent properties and get a list of zip files -> click on the file it opens in File explorer to extract -> I click extract and get these .DAT files.