threaten both of them with a lawsuit and they will very likely settle with you.

They may want to come back and settle with you, to take it off their credit rating. 

I would love to save the floors, but I would settle for getting the smell out. 

This is largely based on experience so you can shoot for the moon, but be prepared to settle on what works with your strategy.Once you have done one, now you are building experience... and then you can move forward and hopefully with better terms.

I interviewed 8 lenders before settling on them. 

Usually best to settle or they file BK and landlord gets very little to nothing.Have in lease they have do disclose sales quarterly.

You could turn the matter over to a collection company (including law firms that do collections on contingency), but normally, they charge a very high percentage of what they recover, and you normally have to authorize them to settle for any amount the want to.

Now, since the rates are up, the rush to move to FL is down and local tenants are pushed to city suburbs and settled there due to better prices, there is a lot of available inventory.

I take most of my questions about depreciation off my plate while the dust has settled.

Have done tons of research into taking loans etc, but probably settling on getting 20% DP and 6 months worth of monthly costs (maintenance/mortgage/utilities).Started looking to my state laws and saw I need 3 years experience to even get a MN broker license and was wondering how I should go about that.Does that mean I have to sell houses or is there a way to become an employee under an existing property manager?