@Mark Cruse put things a lot more eloquently than me, but that's because you're more focused on being defensive than understanding your limits.

The prime defense that we used to hedge our bets was to ensure that any property we looked at would be able to function as a long term rental.

Personally, I like rent growth and appreciation in my investments and football games that come down to turnovers and defense.

IMO this is because of government fiscal policy, ie spending.Bad Government Fiscal Policy is Driving InflationDeficit spending is a snake eating its tail: deficit spending → more inflation → higher interest rates to slow inflation = more inflation = keep interest rates higher → debt more expensive / accelerates…..repeat.The US debt has is currently rising by $1 trillion every 100 days, or roughly the budget of our entire defense budget (which is larger than the next 10 countries combined).

Jerome Daly, an attorney and defendant in this case, had handled his defense pro se against First National Bank, the plaintiff.

When you’ve accumulated some assets/equity invest DEFENSIVELY, cover your downside risk5.

It's a budget friendly option to some of the other services, and they have engineers on staff + audit defense, but the more expensive cost seg companies ($1500-2500) will actually do walkthroughs of your property via Facetime to more granularly estimate components of your structure. 

I lost about $25,000 through them, will never work with them again Since I'm already in defense mode on another thread, might as well revive this one...No matter how hard you try to pre-qualify and dodge the bullet like Keanu in Matrix.Eventually you get struck.For further entertainment, feel free to CLICK HERE 

Insurance is your first line of defense, and being anomalous (trusts), works great.

The notice must be served regardless of the method of payments by the owner, whether proper or improper, and does not give to the lienor serving the notice any priority over other lienors in the same category; and the failure to serve the notice, or to timely serve it, is a complete defense to enforcement of a lien by any person.