In DC, Baltimore and several other landlord hostile cities they issue fines for the fun of it and a thousand times more.

I think the issue comes frankly when the advice is bad and/or harmful to the audience which is obviously subjective, but someone going on a podcast and telling you how to do a 1031 well to me is a lot different than telling people how to invest in real estate using “other people’s money” or sub-2, I also think the site needs to consider the broader effect on the public with some of thier strategies, for instance I’m not opposed to people buying “off market” if it’s done ethically and with everyone being on the same page, but you tell a broke 22 year old to buy “off market”  and they are going to take advantage of old people, I’m not totally confident biggerpockets even understands its own audience, I used to host a real estate meetup, I had to stop because it was literally meeting after meeting if me taking some 22 year old kid out of doing something either stupid or often borderline illegal, it wasn’t fun after a while, but like that’s the core bp audience at this point more so than people like me & you.Thanks for those kind words all. 

I think I'll get active back in fall and winter, and may make REI my fall/winter game.

The Mouse Trap is the fun place to grab drinks. 

I am also very involved with 2 local homeless organizations and in the winters I'm a homeless shelter overnight supervisor volunteer.I'll reach out to connect next.Mike

Zillow can be fun to deal with.Anyway, the fun part of the Exclusive Agency Addendum" in Texas is this:"If Owner sells or leases the Property to an Excluded Prospect, Owner will not be obligatedto pay the fees due to Broker under Paragraph 5A of the Listing, but Owner will pay Broker, at the time the sale closes or the lease begins, a fee equal to"and an excluded prospect is defined in the very next paragraph:"In order for a person to qualify to be an Excluded Prospect under this Addendum, Owner must send Broker written notice identifying the Excluded Prospect by name, address, and phone."

Purchase price: $60,000 Cash invested: $65,000 This house was tenant occupied and burned down during the winter storm in Memphis, TN.

I did notice no one left their windows open in the winter after that.

Lots of fun stuff if you are strategic Jon Bock, CPA/PFS

Fun fact, typically 40% of all annual home sales take place March-June.