You can find the deals, just have to be connected to the locals and walk into those units reeking of cat piss and say "Smell's like a deal, baby".

If we smelled anything like faking a name of a Living Trust as @John Underwood suggests or deeding back to original owner as a fraud we foreclosed in 30 days.

There's a lot of movement by a handful of Federal regulating bodies that are pushing to provide honesty and transparency up front for consumers.

The building is 60+ years old, in which there is no evidence of visible mold, no mildew smell.

I'm also quite certain he has an alcohol issue, as I always smell alcohol when we speak in person.When the tenant first moved in, he would wait for my wife to leave for work and then rush outside to talk to her, often presenting significant problems he was facing – hospital visits, sick parents, cyber hacking, and more.

Doing anything else kind of smells of badgering.

Hi Alex,Thanks for the mention.Unfortunately, investors sometimes expect providers to subsidize all loss of income incurred on a property which isn't feasible.We do our best to minimize costs and in many instances "eat a cost" that we shouldn't.Can't control "acts of God" or the weather/other people lolAs we all should know, there are ups and down's with real estate investing.Business is easy and people make it difficult as the saying goes.Our PM never just throws "a body" into a property just to call it "tenanted"Why?

Largely to avoid the PM from throwing the first warm body in that fills out an app and you're stuff with a bozo.

Contractor assured me smell would go away after house repainted, but that's not the case.

A great rule of thumb is to underwrite 100 deals before picking one so that you can develop another sense and start to smell out the great opportunities when you find them.