There are a lot of old timers floating around Columbia that are bitter because they don't really know about investing just own a few houses.

Would you guys say that there are better deals on distressed rental real estate during bitter cold months than during the rest of the year?  

Doing a good deed once for someone is appropriate, but once someone does a good deed for the same person on a routine basis, then the person doing the good deed begins to feel pressure on themselves to keep doing it, because now they think it’s expected of them, and they don’t know how to “get out of it” Thus, bitterness develops, anger, and a lashing out, which ends up in “Bad Blood” between them.  

If she didn't, it would probably be a bitter 6 mos between us.What other recourse do I have?

It sucks to go 30k over budget, but if you agreed on something beforehand, I'd like to think that's much better than winging it and causing bitterness.

Bitter relations between tenants and landlords, with an arms race between ever-more ingenious strategies to force tenants out -- what yesterday's article oddly described as ''free-market horror stories'' -- and constantly proliferating regulations designed to block those strategies?

I've learned from bitter experience to screen like crazy (including home visit) before signing a lease, to ensure the tenant knows how to keep up a property.

The victory is a little bitter sweet though, as our lead funnel has been dry for quite some time now.  

There was a shoot-out at a HA house out in the country here between 2 rival gangs.....over 1700 shots fired and no one was hit.

The syndicators make money on the fees.Just be really careful out there whether you invested individually yourself or if accredited passively with a syndicator.There is a lot of Kool Aid being sold out there right now that initially tastes sweet but has a really bitter taste at the end.