To hit a grand slam, you need to buy under performing or destroyed properties, fix them up, and rent them out.

Its far worse when someones desire ("the American dream") and naivety saddles them with a debt that will destroy their entire life.

Once a tenant destroys the sheet vinyl, you can put a new layer of stick down on top of the sheet vinyl and replace individual tiles as you go through tenants.

This will virtually destroy the rental property base of the country.

There is solid concrete in various other areas of the yard as well.And there are tons of minor other issues related with sloppy cleanup (nails, concrete chunks, destroyed lawn segments) that are left unresolved.Despite being told yesterday that he or his guy would be here today to work, no one has shown up.

As you may know,business line of credit is hard to build and easy to destroy.

What's next - using Obama's middle name every time you refer to him to subtly imply he's out to destroy America?

i love the industry and love what rental income does for my wallet..but i certainly don't respect them in the least bit or think they deserve the landlord biased rights they enjoy. it's morally wrong for someone to be allowed to stay in my house if they don't pay, destroy property or disturb the peace in the residence, period. i won't give in an inch on that concept. they can sue, but they won't get a dime. they can jail me, but i won't change. they can call the police, but the police can't do anything (one tried it nine times one night). i'll just learn from it and be that much better at outsmarting the system next time.

Lost equity, destroyed credits, lost homes, lost jobs, lost 401ks... call me crazy, the banks themselves simply bucking up and reducing the overall debt of the country by $100B or so seems "fair" to me at this point.

Putting the agreed price or option fee in an agreement as a moving target destroys the purpose of an option and it's valuation.