(They always advertise for Buyers) Create your list of the power agents who have a down line of Selling agents attached to them.Listing agents are working their listings for buyers so your lists is going to uncover the Big Listing Agents...

I am from Mass originally so nice to hear you.

You also need to uncover your "WHY" when times get hard.

Unfortunately for anyone looking for these investment groups, it is still a "who you know" game, or at least becomes a lot harder and entails more networking, typically higher buy-ins, and/or lots of research to uncover these groups.

I actually do not accept dogs in most of my properties but I have a couple SFH in not so nice neighborhoods and I took the " pets accepted" as my advantage.

the reason any and all parties that could be named in a lawsuit are named from the beginning is because in the discovery process of litigation, it may be uncovered that you (personally) are liable (through piercing your corporate veil or other deliberate acts) and that suing attorney can have additional recourses (EG your personal assets) to go after. 

Sounds like this is not the first time they are having a conflict with a landlord and I am curious if proper due diligence would have uncovered a problem ahead of time.

Although I've worked with some inspectors who are a bit too opinionated for my liking (basically talking my client out of buying), for the most part, I WANT an inspector working with my client to uncover all potential issues. 

Making the Yield: Real Estate Hard Money Lending Uncovered - Salvatore M.

I've already uncovered several lenders that were absolutely not legit or suspicious at the least from FB.