With that said, for my day job I am employed as an Anti-Money Laundering professional for a financial institution.

I am totally not anti real estate agent but I was wanting to make this a learning process for myself since it fell into my lap.

MI comanies are usually exempted from anti-deficiency protections offered by states becuase they are not a mortgage.3.

It can be used to escape markets that have instituted rent caps or anti-landlord policies. 

I love how I come to this site and am constantly hearing about all these anti-wholesaling laws that are fabricated by real estate brokers and lawyers.

Hello @Todd Wood,The anti-landlord regulations in Portland (and Seattle and California) make it difficult to make money as a landlord.

I do caution you though, you should be prepared with the anti-BP-addiction serum because after just a short while reading BP is all you’ll want to do!

Hagerstown has tons of poverty, crime and a declining population, and an extremely anti landlord government.

I have seen some of this anti-slip traction grip tape used before which might be less expensive.

Unfortunately, if email retention policies and other "anti-discovery" protocols are executed properly - and after Enron they generally are - it is difficult to prove that anyone "knowingly & willingly" committed fraud or took other illegal action, piercing the corporate veil to hold individuals accountable is next to impossible.Having seen the mess up close and personal, BofA seemed to be the most culpable of the big banks in extending and exasperating the problem.