I've really grown to enjoy the Bigger Pockets Podcast and am just shocked at how many opportunities there are and in how many different directions you can go with real estate investing!

For those of you with more years in RE, is financing always this crazy, or are we still in the after shock of 2009?

When he heard that, he was shocked, asked how can I conclude this and wagered that not only will he last a year, he'll be there for several, even ten. 

A Handy man can repair and paint in short amount of time..It's a shock when you see damage caused by a tenant, but it's part of the business...

Perhaps you put escalators in, and raise it $75 the first year and then $150 the second year or something, to make it not quite as big a shock to them...

I would lose.. so why go through the fight in the first place... we have them resold at a nice profit already so it worked.. my point was that I was of the same mind you were with liquidated damages clause in the EM agreement but come to find out INdy does not have them as a standard fill in the blanks like we have on the west coast.I just won my first performance case of my career last year.. it took two years and about 10k in attorney fee's.. and I was totally shocked but the judge allowed me ALL of my attorneys fee's in other cases I have won over the years the judge usually just gave us a token amount .Now this was a case were the seller and I went into contract and the seller went dark..

The ones with the side-car...Frankly, I was shocked.

I was shocked at how many Hoosiers are on this site.  

You don't need a loan calculator to see what's the better option for most households.For Boomers and Gen-Xer's, many in the Bay Area have recently inherited a property from their grandparents that was originally purchased in 1950 for next to nothing, and are shocked that the rinky-dink little home they grew up in is worth over $500k, so they are choosing to sell and take the massive windfall out of the state or to more affordable surrounding counties like Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus.

The fed has indicated they intend to raise rates up to 4 times in 2017, assuming no major shocks to the economy.