@Sarah Hadassah Negrón so you get a money judgment.Now you have to turn that into a garnishment action with the courts.To do that, you typcially need to have the tenant personally served - which means finding them or hiring a skip-tracer to do so.Then, what are you going to garnish?

Then I have still have to pay the person who was acting as a host even though no one came. 

The idea of debt-free is that if a person is going to retire and has to completely depend on the income, they don't want a severe recession surprising them and causing them to default on the debt and losing the properties.In a normal world, I would do that as well.

@Jared Goldwasseri would strongly recommend you go to Cincinnati in person. 

In my voicemail, it states if they are interested, to "press 1 to speak with a live person" or "press 2 to be added to our do not call list".

All I can say is that when an investor is the person who's doing the job that a real estate broker is commissioned to do, per state law, that's brokering without a license, which is no bueno and shouldn't be allowed. 

I make it a personal goal to never turn down help.

The answer to this question is really a personal one. 

I have been on BP a long time and maybe about eight years ago , a person had a small chance of finding a posted house for sale here that can be flipped.

I humbly submit I have personally done far more deals in these asset class's than scott since I have been doing it since 2002..