I know from experience that contractors disappear, tenants stop paying rent (good luck if you're in a blue state..sold everything in NY for this reason), interest rates go up as we've witnessed over the last couple of years, anomalies happen (Covid literally effed a lot of us investors).Not to be discouraging, but i've been through all of these and if you can get through it, great.

The sooner the SEC gets involved, the more likely that investors having a fighting chance to get some intervention before even more money disappears into thin air.

Let all wholesalers register, run their backgrounds through FBI NICS database, get some type of MD State registration number in the system that they can show sellers and ensure that no one can commit a crime and disappear in thin air, having stolen funds and properties of the citizens.

@Bruce Woodruff why worry about the amount of equity in a property.Let the threat of lawsuit determine the amount of debt on a property is no way to run a RE property or business.

@Kevin SobiloDepreciation is not something separate that "disappears." 

Those private guys have all but disappeared since.Also -the covid workout programs offered by all - especially FHA - have absolutely horrific terms.

Most of these prefab companies either don’t have a contractor to recommend in my area or will tell me about all the projects they do in CA then disappear when I ask them to get me in touch for a build quote.

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I operate above board so their threats aren't concerning to me.

And if you manage to collect something from them, they will immediately disappear and you'll have to start again.