My handyman skills are decent and I have tools from a hammer to a tractor.

Once you get burned you’ll learn that while you can certainly still give people chances, you’ll start dropping the hammer a bit sooner as to not let yourself get in this situation again.

Are you suggesting we should ban our renters from parking cars on the property or owning a shovel, golf clubs, steak knives, baseball bats, hammers, etc?

I really enjoy all aspects of RE from the finances to the fixing toilets (well, maybe not that part, but happy to swing a hammer). 

Learn as much as you can about the property you're looking (assuming it's made it through the general examination phase), hammer down on your numbers and stick to them, build in some contingency expenses into your budget to prepare for any unknowns that may arise.

Everybody thought MC Hammer had plenty of cash until they saw him on TV hawking "Cash for Gold" on late-night infomercials ;) .

It will only take a $10 drop in oil prices to hammer us back down.

@Melanie KentI started out by swinging a hammer on my dads rentals at 14.

France banned all indoor gatherings of more than 5,000 people.The above is going to hammer airlines, and tourism.

The left leaning commie states do offer appreciation that you won’t see in the Midwest but no one ever talks about how they are the first to get hammered  in a recession .