The one who trained me cost $15,000, and I recovered my investment in a little over 10 weeks.If you can't do that, at least partner with someone experienced or at the very least, bird dog for someone like that. 

I was given a card with for a city representative, told to call them to recover damages and ordered out of the area.  

I went to court with someone whose tenant blocked heat in the laundry room in winter to save money, and while he won a $3000 judgment for damages caused by the burst pipes, but he never recovered anything as the tenant just moved and apparently quit his job and left the state when his wages were garnished.  

The number one reason is the equity in the property is much higher and the banks know that they will have no problem collecting the mortgage, or recover their fund in the unlikely event.

Paul Gupta if you think the market here hasn't recovered from the recession then I need to see the numbers you are looking at.

SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS TO RECOVER POSSESSION OF PREMISES 600.5726 Recovery of possession following forfeiture of executory contract for purchase of premises; accelerated indebtedness.

However, I cannot make any big investment decisions until I am close to fully recovered.

Small price to pay, given the other possible consequences.)The detectives are basically powerless to recover stolen tools without serial numbers.

In my situation the check cut at the end allowed me to fix the place up and was enough to recover even most of my large deductable.

I looked their list over, noted that it was 12 - 15K of work and stated, I would have to raise their daughter's rent by 35 - 40% to recover the costs as that level of finish in the area would not draw enough additional rent for us to recover the cost of the upgrades any other way.In that case, the couple simply had no idea what things cost and once explained to them, they understood.