Or we could just admit that the realtors, lenders, and investors milking people dry and exploiting every law, ordinance and misguided government policy they could get their hands on was the problem. 

Back in Normandy, my neighbor has ten cows and two daughters to milk them.

@Griffin McKissonThere is a lot of good information here, but I'm not gonna lie, after about halfway through the second page I started skimming and working on this post.Some of this will be repeat, but I hope to make this simple and easy (metaphorically speaking)1.

I am a voracious reader and could go on and on.I am reading the Dalio book or really just skimming it for the nuggets..

But, I guarantee you, if I hadn't been firm about it from the get go, he would have tried to milk up as much time as he could. 

Seems like spilt milk.

A slumlord is an unscrupulous landlord who milks a property without concern for tenants, neighborhoods or their own long term interests.

I can’t cry over spilled milk.

I skimmed the new regulations. 

Given the number of people with dog/cat allergies, I'm very surprised by how common this is. side note, I love animals, and I'm extremely supportive of working dogs, and ESA's...when necessary, not when milking the system.