If damages are about $4,000, would you take your tenants to small claims court, or is it not worth it and why?

By making yourself an asset, you’ll increase the chances of someone taking you under their wing.Use BiggerPockets to connect locally.

Increase in property value as a long term hold until the right number comes around that you were looking for. or b.

If your tenant has a credit score worth maintaining they will not want an uncollected judgment to be on it.  

Older properties can be picked up for < 50% of ARV and go up in value in rapid ways with urban renewal efforts … I’ve seen this happen time and time again and so it’s worth saying, diversification is ideal.

With VRBO, strangely, it keeps recommending significant increases which isn't wrong.

They either take too long or they throw in a ton of fees before closing making it not worth it?

Went a bit heavy on the annual taxes due to the increase in the area the past few years.

@Victor Yang I am not a CPA but you cannot take passive losses (real estate activities) to offset active income (W2) unless you make under a certain threshold from your W2 (I don't recall the exact salary).That being said if it is turnkey and you can't value add to create rent growth then probably not worth it at the price

One day a trend not make, but yesterday I have a listing that had a shockingly high number of showings, like 10 days worth of showings, and I also showed a buyer client a property that has been on market for 30 days and now has 3 offers on it.