There are too many legal cases being carried out against scam artist and they're all going to jail which I completely agree with, however, we as investors are guilty by association even though we may fly straight.

You are not guilty of fraud.

This is not television and there are NO reenactments and all parties are guilty with no chance of being proven innocent.

My question is this, being that this acquisition can't simply be business due to the personal relationship I have with the seller, should I feel guilty in capitalizing on her situation even tho I will be helping her stay out of a foreclosure.

They set up the rules and we are made to feel guilty and unethical if we do not keep our end~ who are we kidding!?!

Or get a tractor and flatten all their vehicles plead out temporary insanity and go to a psychatrist for a few years.

I'm guilty of it myself with some classes but it was a lesson to learn.

Just asking cause sometimes landlords (I'm guilty of it too) overdo things.

***think AA meeting*** Hi my name is Maria and I am guilty of being a softy landlord.

Thinking only of the upside and not the downside risk; not understanding the dynamics of how to maximize the former or protect against the latter.Being greedy when others are greedy and fearful when others are fearful, rather than the other way around.Trying to blindly copy strategies that they heard worked for a friend of a friend of a friend in a different market a year ago without thinking through and understanding if, how, or why this strategy works (or not).There's more, but these are the common ones that come to mind ... lord knows I've been guilty of more than a few :)