However, if you raise the asking price, you will be vulnerable to the appraisal.

What an entitled bunch of jerks who feel the need to waste my time in a manner which is illegal.Also, The marketing manner of those is eerily similar to unscrupulous individuals looking to scam vulnerable people out of their money… I wonder why they seem so similar.

IMHO, unemployment will remain low and interest rates will remain highish so we won’t have a recession—I’m an optimist :)I think another vulnerable group consist of commercial investors whose loan terms are coming up.

With little to no money your vulnerable especially as you add more units. 

I asked Jekyll to order specific security items, like a real alarm and a number of dummy cameras to be placed at specified points on the exterior, as well as to reinforce a vulnerable entry point.

People in recovery are a vulnerable population.I forgot to mention that another place you would learn more is by getting the certification training by PARR, the Pennsylvania Alliance for Recovery Residences or by the local  NARR chapter, if you are looking to invest in a different state.Best of luck with your investing. 

The world doesn't feel great, but it economically feels more like recovering from a concussion than anything else.Posting hard predictions, with dates, online feels oddly vulnerable. 

I understand that this would be leaving us in a more vulnerable position as grow near the end of her lease and I was not even sure if this is even legal because these funds are contracted and held in escrow.

May they all go down in flames.

If your friend can't do what he was supposed to do to this point, and he's behind by $5K, and then goes into debt another 2.5K to you, and that's just to get him to the next draw - and he's still got $36K in draws to go.......I just see this imploding.So, as someone else mentioned, if you're willing to give your friend the $5K to help him try to make this work, with no expectation of getting it back, that would be a really nice thing to do.On the other hand, if it goes down in flames and now he's lost the $5K & the $2.5K extra promised to a friend, it seems to me he'll feel terrible about that and that might not be doing him any favors either.I tend to only do deals with friends where I'm guaranteed to get what I need out of the deal, and in those instances, I'm very generous.