If it gets harder to evict tenants, landlords will require higher deposits and rents to make up for those potential losses.

The cost segregation allows for accelerated depreciation creating pretty big losses on first year of acquisition and there after also.But schedule E doesn’t allow posting those losses to personal taxes 1040. losses stay with schedule E until they get offset by future profits from property.Did I get this correct?

A free market is a system of gains and losses.

You can’t stop the house from burning down after you incurred costs, but before you’ve closed. if you’re leveraging, you can’t change interest rate (much.) you can’t guarantee that you don’t have a year of rent loss because your state decided to put a moratorium on evictions. did you see the case in California where the guy sold his house but didn’t move out?

But yes, payback period is considered by business for any investment and I stated that myself.Any business runs on profit/loss income statement (very important) but also balance sheet (assets/liabilities).

However if you do It might mean both a loss due to the note being uncollectible or even go to jail for not haveing the apropriate license.

Since the beginning of Q2 2014, the average growth rate for industrial-using employment in Los Angeles has been -1.1% per year, representing the average annual loss of 6,824 jobs.

I get an email informing me that one of the investments went bad, the company had to foreclose on the property and that I can expect an 87% loss of my total capital on that investment. 

Alec,From an Insurance perspective, ask the current owner to get from their agent "Loss Runs" for the past 5 years.  

The goal of any insurance company is to minimize there losses.