And presumably, the debt I had would mean that, once liquidated, the assets would have more equity for my family to inherent than if I never had the positively leveraged debt.To me, debt is just a tool -- no different than a hammer or a microwave oven.

The internet is a truly powerful tool, but again for me it is just A tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver.

You must drop the hammer on them and stay on top of them.

I like to swing my own hammer and I do some of my own property management.  

So, you have three exists, sell for cash or to a financing buyer who can close before the hammer drops or refinance that underlying loan or use your cash and pay it off.

You do not need to know how to swing a hammer or when to swing it, but you do need the fore mentioned skills along with an ability to locate the same deals the rehabber is getting, plus have enough spread added for yourself.

I am under the impression that unless he spends more than 6 months every year in Nevada actually living and working down here, that he could definitely get hammered by both the IRS and California government.

So, if you want to swing a hammer, you'll get paid the same as someone who swings hammers for a living.

That's only an afternoon's works, and trying to get the tile guy there are the right time would have been a pain.I did also get a nice hammer-head sized dent in the tub.

My guess is that the garage door had gotten stuck while someone had tried to close it manually (the automatic garage route was not viable due to the garage modem being damaged in the previous power incident) and he had tried to hammer the roller down , however , without much respect as to the angle and had forced the metal beam apart from the roller in the process.Now they refuse to pay for the damages for the garage door , and we'll soon find out whether they were responsible for the power issue in the near future.