So cash for keys got them moved and kept them from destroying the house on the way out..

Example 2: Same scenario but FLOOD being the reason the structure was destroyed.

You talk to the neighbor and they tell you the city bulldozed the house last week, because it was destroyed in a hurricane. 

Consider this: there are an estimated 10K homes in Pacific Palisades, at least half of which were destroyed. 25% were constructed during the 60-70's and +/- 75 TOTAL were built in the past FIVE years. 

It's forever destroyed by the process of securitization.

The judge there is "progressively" destroying rental property by allowing massive delays in evictions. 

Other items, such as football equipment from the kids’ league, were destroyed in the flooding, he said.More leaks have come from the plumbing between his first and second floors, prompting him to leave his light fixtures hanging unmounted from their wires so they don’t fill with water, he said.Clusters of dead insects cling to one section of his ceiling.

I see a lot of people buying class D rentals seeing it appears to cashflow then have one tenant stop paying and destroy the place to bankrupt themI do not want that to happen to you, so this is why I gave the options I did.

To paraphrase Warren Buffet “it takes a lifetime to build your reputation and only a moment to destroy it”

One bad tenant can ( and have) quickly destroyed a year+ worth of profit.I agree with the vast majority of what you said.