Many times, your realtor or resources like BiggerPockets can provide solid recommendations.It’s not as tough as it seems, but the key is taking your time to build the right network and systems.

Once the funds are up and they can't repay the loan(s) back because offering free services are just enticing new investors that do not have a real system setup.

Let go of what you cannot control, and become a lot more emotionally stable to start investing.

My $2000 also covers stuff that inevitably break under normal use - I had to replace a washer $700, a stove $600, a microwave $100, and a grill $400, all  within last 2 years, and paid close to $1000 for various service calls by electricians and HVAC techs and pest control. 

Avoiding the ravages and savages of the divorce court system. 

Even large and small businesses with intangible residual services like TV, internet, security, pest control or the local contractor with remodels in process could fall behind on payments revenue contract. 

@Ed Lopez what controls do you have over what they decide to do?

Just thank your deity that you don’t live in a rent controlled city/state.

The guarantee in 4 months seems a little off but I like the VA support system you mentioned.

“One of the scariest things that happen in the worst-case scenarios is people turn on people,” he said in one clip after listing a few such scenarios: a new, more-virulent pandemic; artificial intelligence run amok; nuclear war; or “the real war with China and Russia and cybertechnology and the Cold War.”RAD’s survivalist-camp business is in the process of gaining control of 20,000 acres of rural property across multiple sites nationwide, Mendenhall said in an interview last month with the financial blogger and stock picker Jim Woods on Woods’ podcast, Way of the Renaissance Man.But the bulk of the business’ holdings consists of residential real estate, filings show.