If the tenant fails to correct the situation, their account is shut off but the utilities revert back into your name so there is no risk of freezing a house or some other issue.I manage 340 units and the utility company notifies us any time a tenant starts an account, closes an account, or gets behind on an account.

There are already statutes and regulations regarding fraud and deception in real estate transactions.Educating people who want to be educated is fine, but if a governing body restricts the pool of ready and willing buyers, more properties will go to foreclosure and sit on the market longer.Real estate investors perform a vital function in every jurisdiction: putting properties back on the market, in good condition.Many of the properties they buy could never pass conventional lender's inspection because they typically require tens of thousands of dollars in repairs that most homeowners do not have or cannot do themselves.Additionally, many real estate investors near metropolitan centers can access almost an unlimited pool of funding to buy and remodel properties if the numbers work.From contract to close, the time can be in as little as 3-4 business days.The delay is mostly waiting on title companies.So when flippers mail letters and post cards to owners saying they can "close quick" and "all cash", that is a fact, not fraud.Of course, realtors will recommend you list your property – that's how they make money – so they are self-interested, which makes the report biased.Maybe next time you can have a "flipper" on you show for balanced reporting.The idea of anyone feeling "pressured" by getting a post card or flyer is ludicrous.If the homeowner doesn't want to sell, the solution is to throw them away.But the idea of "there ought to be a law" is equally ludicrous.If there are bad actors committing fraud, the answer is to enforce the laws already on the books.Out of all the properties posted for sale every 1st Tuesday of the month at the trustee's sale, a very large percentage never make it because they are bought by the very flippers you disparaged.If not for the real estate investing community, cities around the country would look much, much worse.My biggest complaint with your report is that you completely failed to get the rest of the story.Your editor needs address this."

A tenant has indicated she wants out of her lease early due to her mother's failing health. 

The numbers are acceptable and modest but the education has been significant and after failing to come to a deal with two other properties we were happy to get our hands dirty.

other areas because of this massive marketing by how to trainers and the low bar of entry for every 100- that fail at it . 500 replace them.

As to the comment about the brokers not responding and failing to underwrite the deal properly with specifics about financial health of the property, that’s just laziness and incompetence.

And the tenant admitted that if the owner didn't waive the rent, it'll take him a year or two to catch up, with the landlord breathing down his neck all this time.At the time this happened, I had a tenant who lost his job, voluntarily moved to his friend's place, and had to discard all his belonging's after failing to sell it.

Those corrode from the inside out, and you don't know they're about to fail until your basement is filled with unmentionable disgustingness. 

The worst that happens is you fail, lose some money, but will learn a great deal. 

Don’t be afraid to fail and if you do treat it as an education!