You can challenge your credit card transaction or claim your card was stolen that leaves the agency on the hook guaranteeing the transaction.

He's stolen nearly over 3500$ out of the mouths of my kids, and has made no attempt to make good nor can he pick up the phone.   

Renovated properties in stable family neighborhoods are almost always a safe bet....what I still can't understand is dropping  $150k on a renovation of a historic property in a neighborhood where your a/c unit will be stolen unless it's in a cage...there's no sustainability to the model...

And it is much more likely they may have a stolen or bad ssn than someone gets their ssn from you.

If you can improve that, you have stolen the heart of America

So all the normal stuff like Copper piping that you see stolen is long gone.

So I reached out to the senior manager about trying to get a new advisor and she never contacted me back and I tried contacting the company and nothing and I could never get ahold of them again and it was supposed to be a year long program and I was about 6 weeks in so that was $8000 just stolen.

This amounts to BILLIONS of dollars,  that though not stolen, are inaccessible until the ransom is paid.

Whatever isn't stolen or taken by the tenants you have to have the moving company come back at 5pm to pick up.

Fourth, he had no vendors in his network, but I was able to put him in touch with someone to remove the trash and property left by the tenant, an appliance guy I know who fixes and sells appliances so he could replace the stolen ones, and a flooring guy to repair that damage.In my experience, the owners that hire a PM after self-managing do so because of some incident that occurred, that led them to say "It's not worth the headache, I'd rather pay the ~$140 a month to not have to worry about it."