It turns out that nothing is more of a waste of time, energy, and money than this, money that could have been spent elsewhere.

The appealing aspect here is the ongoing population growth and other economic factors.

It is something that happens and if your deals did not have enough meat on the bone to accommodate those increases, then maybe it is time to consider a transfer of your equity to better deals by selling the property or properties.Now, I am not familiar with the Lafayette rental market, but I would think that it is at least as active as the Houma/Thibodaux MSA due to a wider economic diversification.

After spending all day dodging junk mail, junk e-mail, junk texts, and junk phone calls I have very little energy left for junk BP posts!

The police love to claim it's a "civil matter" so they won't have to spend time and energy on it. 

A combination of extremely tough long term tenant protections and the economics of short term renting being a lot more attractive. 

Focus on factors like what is driving cities to grow both in population and economics.

If they don't have the energy to do 5 deal analysis, then they will want their hands held by the coach all the way thru and that won't work. 

I hope your attorney can help you and remember to stream your energy to find the next deal yourself so you can cover this loss; this is the most helpful way to let go of that feeling of being scammed.

I know plenty of folks who meet your definition of Ultra and they seem very happy to me and have loving families although they also have the same struggles with kids that every family in every economic strata has.