Plus, I would be free to ride my motorcycle.W.

@Mike Webb it is extremely frustrating when that one person, with his "x" years of experience over rides 4 people (my agent, buyers agent, me, and 1st appraiser) with a combined 70+ years experience... and there is NO RECOURSE!!

The problem with extra pet deposits is that it is not possible to quantify the effect of pet smells on the value of the property, sometimes replacing the entire carpet is the only way to get ride of the pet smells.

You will be tempted by the "lotto riches" the "painting hidden in the attic", "the free ride".

Buy right, improve operations, ride it for a while. 

It’s also expensive to ship them and if they’re a larger breed, they will likely need to ride in the cargo hold and my dogs and I aren’t too fond of that idea.If you ship a car to HawaiiIt’s a process to get the registration changed to Hawaii.

Like I said, foreclosing a borrower is not all flowers, rainbows and pony rides.  

Of course, if you have the wherewithal to ride out any downturn or you understand the market extremely well to the point you know ahead of time when a market is going down then that mitigates your risk considerably, however, you are still speculating on market timing.   

If the highest dollars are gotten on the MLS why do Turn key or even you offer properties to out of state investors and have bus rides etc etc.. when you would simply list them and sell them like we do here on the West coasts..

The property was developer owned who was renting to ride out the RE crash.