My agent is so passive that I have to defend myself with the listing agent ..Smh..So Now to close this deal I have to do a double close which is about to eat away at the profits.

Which probably means that you are enjoying positive cash flow as well as capital appreciation, both good things.As for the down 40-50% stuff, again I am a champion of diversification, if your investments take a 40% loss, you need someone new to manage your investment.

Another poster stated that although I don't offer consumer loans, that the day may come I have to defend myself and lending practices in court.

But @William E. rightly recognizes that a unique opportunity has come your way through that walk through couple.Normally a 1031 exchange on this project would be difficult to defend because the timing and process would look awfully like a fix n flip and those do not qualify for 1031 treatment.

For the Property Owner it's a loose loose as the cost to defend the case no matter how frivolous it may be is almost always more than the security deposit.

Normally, those injured in the course of a law enforcement action are obliged to collect restitution from the criminal defendant, but the city ultimately agreed that the Guindon claim was different.

The defendant could be ordered to pay all my attorneys fees etc. but the money may never appear.The attorney said the best thing to do was not go through the stress and time for 1 year and instead focus on energies elsewhere.

My gut reaction is that people don't resign from the bar when an issue like that comes up unless they know they have no chance of successfully defending themselves.

But once I showed him I wanted it to be my future and I was for real, he gave in.The point of me telling you this is not to necessarily defend the seminars across the country, but to tell you from first hand experience it is dedication and persistence AND education that will make people successful in real estate.

Apparently, a defendant was trying to make a federal case off a parking ticket that he got at the beach down & Broward.