10 Years of SFH investment blood, sweat and tears, were the eventual foundation and financial strength, to allow a move into buying a foreclosed 11 acre developable commercial site.

So my coffee station is supplied with a crystal sugar bowl, my soap dishes are lead crystal, my mis-matched wine glasses are awesome, a  crystal dish holds popurri in the bedroom.   

But what I did was looked up population in denver so that I won'd go too far into the areas where I have to walk ten miles to ask for sugar.

Eventually, the house will go into tax sale, foreclosure, or even receivorship if there are outstanding code violations, which, like blood in the water, will attract those looking to strip meat from bones.

The range hood looks disgusting because someone had spilled cooking oil down onto it, and then a bag of sugar.  

New Orleans is in your blood, for both people who were born here (especially south of I-10!)

Catch more flies with sugar!

Nearly 30 years in this business, I have not yet learned how to get Blood out of a turnip.

Over the course of six years I have almost maximized my W-2 income and put in blood sweat and tears sweat equity into my rentals.

I would still charge the security deposit and not let our super stupid idiots at the city council deter me from collecting a security deposit and paying your tenants a stupid 1% or $10 for a $1,000 security deposit.If you are so worried about being $1.00 off and getting fined be the best landlord in town and give your tenants $20 every year and they will think they died and wen to heaven.As for not getting a security deposit and suing for damages, you can't squeeze blood from a rock and I found it is cumbersome, time-consuming and expensive to take a tenant to court and win, go to court a second time for an appeal and win and go to court two to three more times to do discovery for your tenant's assets to try to collect on your judgement and still not get one penny.