I do have stocks but I wasn’t thinking that I should play the market but if the stock market keeps getting hammered, then I could see myself waiting to get some blue chips as the time to buy is when there is “blood in the streets”.

The silent partner is expecting a certain return, and if you take a chunk out of that at the end, it will build bad blood.

I had a hideous blood red and orange walled, 1982 time capsule.

Penny wise and pound foolish, investors who lack legal business experience reading to become self taught and then represent themselves in the formation of their business where their life blood will be.

“Pets/animals” include, but is not limited to, both warm- and cold-blooded animals, such as dogs, cats, fish, rabbits, hamsters, rats, birds, snakes, lizards, and insects.Tenant agrees to pay immediately for any damage, loss, or expense caused by such pets/animals.If Landlord grants permission for keeping a pet, Tenant must sign a Pet Agreement addendum for each pet, which may require additional monthly rent and/or additional security deposits.

This is a business and it takes a great deal of knowledge, massive action, and for lack of better words, blood seat and tears to make it work.  

Or is it just getting to the point where the big guns are going to wipe out the young blood before they even have a chance to get their feet wet?

Many landlords think PM's are blood sucking leeches bleeding them dry................ : )I looked at the model about 7 or 8 years ago as I was analyzing all kinds of real estate niches.

Now this dagger was drilling his brain that he was losing his home, he was never gong to be able to successfully pull out of this and he might as well sell to them at a 20 - 30% loss.All the while, he kept looking at the living room he had remodeled completely with his own hands, the bedrooms, the new infants room, the back deck, the storage units, the front yard rose garden and landscaping all done with his hands, blood,.sweat and tears.

@Doug Pretorius In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you that I have Canadian blood too.My Dad's father and his people came here through Antigonish, NS.