I've heard the horror stories from landlords about how the tenant they were evicting poured cement down the toilet, played hammer darts in every room, ripped out the copper, or left piles of garbage for the landlord to clean up.This hasn't happened to me - my last tenant just left untidiness that took me about an hour to clean up.

You should see me eat crablegs. one leg in each hand grabbing it like you would a hammer, and I am chewing on the third holding it up with ma toes!

I get the 10% down, the cash flow, the principal paydown, the tax write offs, have no work to do and don't require a property manager.So, if you like swinging a hammer, like I do, build a shed in the back yard but make your money buying "off market" and selling "lease option".

One thing I know for sure is this- If they did not suspend evictions in my market, then some shmucks would have filed half-assed and sloppy ones that would have brought an even harder hammer down on us.Use this time to re-assess and re-evaluate your holdings, screening and purpose.

When the gas company discovered that they came with jack hammers and a back hoe excavated the paved public street and severed the gas line. 

@Natalie Kolodij I think you are sought of on the right path but may be thinking too much at this point, I don't disagree on having multiple options, but here is how I would lay it down: (also I am not a big savy investor like other BP members, please don't hammer me on what I have to say :-) ) 1.

Then when the market crashed many equity investors as we know got hammered ( I was one of them) So then the Marketing companies repositioned the message and came up with a few new tag  lines:" appreciation is only icing on the cake its all about cash flow don't care if the asset ever goes up in value"" Live were you want but invest were it makes sense"and so on.. so you have the last 10 years of investors primed for cash flow and primed to buy were the numbers are highest vis a vi a passive rental return..

@Michael Valerio   the issues Mike are as @J Scott alluded to.. from my perspective and its the exact same thing that happened to my client.. your rehab bid was off by a ton... your resale number was way high.. it induced someone to buy then they get hammered.. pump and dump is really what it is.. and newbies are prefect fodder.. you got me once.. but never again.

I came through the house flipping spread sheets' website where they offer different excel sheets for flippers from analyzing to budgeting to marketing to scheduling etc...and thought about sharing this here to see if anybody have purchased their spreadsheets to  advice me and give me their feedback.As for finding the wholsesale deals in LA, i came through myhousedeals.com too and they've been hammering me to upgrade my profile to a VIP membership ever since i created a free account a week ago.

Schools on the South and West sides are getting hammered.