Selling your Triplex-- I would recommend doing an a1031 it's a bunch of money for you and I'm certain that you will be able to find a property in East Bay ( Hayward, Oakland, Berkley, etc) to match what you're looking in terms of returns/cashflow.

The purchase price was 845k and the rehab was going to come out to 380k with an ARV of 2M.During the process, our contractor unfortunately took our deposits and did not complete the job.

Offer some incentives like paying for their move or covering the security deposit and first months rent at their new place.

He was able to fight the mugger off and then had him arrested - which is how the scheme was revealed.Only logical reason to accept cash is if you're trying to hide income from the IRS.Otherwise, require your tenants to send you money orders or deposit cash rent into your bank account.

So they never sell your contract runs out you wasted marketing money time and sometimes EM deposits etc.. 

The vast majority of lawsuits against Landlords are for wrongful eviction, security deposit disputes, and Fair Housing Violations.

It is still sitting unsold and I have my deposit money back.

Here's how I do my due diligence:1) Portfolio matching: (takes 30 seconds per deal)a) Have an educated opinion on where I think we are in the real estate cycles (financial and physical market cycles)b) Then and only then do I pick the strategies, capital stack, and specialized asset subclasses that make sense for that opinion.

However, getting returns that match the S&P in real estate is not exciting at all.

***I had a nightmare tenant (let's call them The Crystals) that didn't provide a fwd address either in the past and kept saying they would sue for the security deposit blabla but never did anything, kept the security deposit for their last month so they didn't overstayed, therefore I didn't chase them for the rest of the lease amount since they vacated, happy they were gone.In the case actions I see an officer was assigned, this is the first time I see this portal (created account to be able to look up the case once I saw the Rushmores packing up and leaving?