Quote from @James Miller: i heard thru others that both Dutch and Amy have body gaurds and they roughed up a investor over the weekend of the event they did in Tampa. 

@Albert Gallucci as many have pointed out, in the commercial space of 100+ apartment buildings and offices, property classes have some pretty decent industry standards.We started applying these to 1-4 unit properties around 10 years ago, which you can verify on our blogs, because we saw too many newbie investors not properly taking into account things like, neighborhood status, tenant pool, property condition, etc.Unfortunately, there's no industry standard for this, but you can use some basic logic to think your way through your own Classifications.

There is well developed  case law that points to a guarantor having to receive a benefit in order for the lender to hold them accountable in the event of a default etc.

Just my $0.02 working in the industry.

That shouldn't necessarily be a differentiator when choosing a lender, as evidenced by the boom of the DSCR lending industry....non of which are FDIC insured.

Hell, i've seen attorneys volley contracts back and fourth with each other for months on end arguing things like the meaning of the word "the" in "the contract".....All while racking up those $500/hour billable hours of course.Case and point, I won't change your outlook on the industry.

The industry is mature and margins have properly compressed.

I'm fairly new in the industry as well, and most of the sources I've checked at first require a subscription (CoStar, WSJ), but I found this newsletter called Zeroflux Real Estate who consolidate real estate news from such sites.

In the event you do have to pay for the repair (although I would heavily contest this with the contractor) I think its fair to charge the tenants with an explanation that you did incur damages for the repair although you previously believed that you would not 

I took my thrashing as you know in 2020  I do know some of my clients that sell turnkey have been keeping the houses and doing BRRRR instead of selling them to investors that part of the market has slowed signficantly for many in that industry.