Suddenly things started breaking loose and I rapidly started making progress (or at least if felt rapid).

He owned a few other timber tracts that were worth Millions I could never get him to cut loose with those try as I might. 

Property seizure is a good way to gamble with loosing your rental to pay a judgment.Failure to comply with the eviction statutes will, at some point, cost you big time. 

It is in a vacation area for outdoor enthusiasts that is gaining more attention.I believe listing with a local agent, I would loose more equity to commission than I would like. 

Yeah, you read that right, and she was totally loosing it more and more as I had to stop and say "excuse me, you said ___??".

However, basing maintenance and cap ex on rent is providing a tight coupling were there is only a loose coupling. 

If you have separate leases, you might loose one of them and hence half of the rent.

You also can hit up Kansas City, Dayton, Toledo, Cincinnati, Birmingham, Memphis, Indianapolis, Detroit and more or less anything in the fly over states.One thing to note when looking at the individual markets, you can make or loose money in any market.

So you have to deduct it from their rent and then threaten to evict them, which I also don't like decause when you start using that hammer a lot it looses its effectiveness too..  

I traced my sewer line along the whole basement via several access panels and outlet boxes, and I found no leak no broken pipe.But eventually I traced it all the way to the front of the house and found this hole (top circle) after moving a lot of loose dirt around.