., mixed in with another class (maybe along with sex ed) would be beneficial to high school students in general, extensive mandatory instruction in personal finances would have too many very personal variables to be taught successfully in a class setting with tests and grades attached, and could actually prove harmful if certain philosophies are given more weight than others.            

It feels like people just focus on the leverage aspect of the FHA loan before even considering the ridiculous long-term harm to your wealth associated with them.Thanks,VR

Nerdwallet was kind enough to list both the interest rate AND the overall APR for 30yr fixed conventional vs FHA and that tells you that looking at the interest rate only is misleading and actually harmful to your long-term wealth building. 

At this time, the plumber (now his wife joined the conversation) became irate and cussed out our property manager, even threatening bodily harm to him.

I wish none of them any harm either BTW, in fact I consistently get flamed here on BP trying to keep the newbs out of harm's way by mentioning the inconvenient truths that they don't want to hear, but these are the facts on how it normally works ...

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

In a market like Omaha, Nebraska, where I live, 500- to 700k could get you enough property to cashflow exceptionally, and one of the underappreciated truths about this city is that it has been stable through market cycles.We don't appreciate rapidly, but economic downturns don't tend to harm our real estate much either.

If you take care of issues and keep your property above average it should cause you no harm to raise yearly.

Yes it is a time to be grateful and compassionate as the the others have said in this thread, but I see no harm in your also also feeling and expressing the outrage of having your rights taken away from you (even temporarily) after all the hard work you put into building what you have.