Like almost everything else in life: Short-term pain for long-term gain!

That is a health code violation.

Quote from @Karl Kauper: The tenant should figure his own life out.

That being said, life happens, and the mortgage police are not going to come looking for you if something unexpected happens and you have to move out of the house before one year.

It has caused problems not just with housing, but health care.

If you're considering just "winging it" please watch Pacific Heights starring Michael Keaton so you can get an idea of what life will be like inside the same building as rent control tenants whose rent control you are trying to terminate.

We not only lost our hard-earned money but on top of everything, our health suffered, I had several sleepless nights due to the stress and anxiety that this horrible experience created for my wife and me.After the buy-back was completed, I approached Maverick to at least help us with our losses by requesting us to give back ~$6000.

If you don't have the additional mental bandwidth, can't deal with stress in healthful way or do not have much time to commit atleast 14 months of focus then do not build.

Even in my life.

I'm great at reading people - that comes with playing millions of poker hands in my life - if my gut tells me things do not sound right then I pull away.But a scammer has to expose himself/herself because they don't wanna hang around forever.