You learn pretty quickly how to get around on the roads that wind through the beautiful hills and avoid the masses of humanity in Maryland Farms and Cool Springs.

*HOWEVER*, I believe that as an individual investor, you should be sensitive and humane in how you deal with your tenants.

This evil bastard has a faulty moral compass and has decided to steal from the "rich" (you) and give to the "poor" (himself) by squatting on the premises under the guise of a non-existent or forged lease.Where I in your position, I'd find a FLAT RATE eviction attorney that has experience with these kinds of cases as soon as humanly possible.

It's inevitable that they will still exist because human beings make mistakes and have been making mistakes in real estate constantly since the beginning of time.

Also contact the NC Dept of Health and Human Services.

Currently I work as a Human Resource Specialist for Staffing Alternatives Inc (SAI) at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington, DC.  

I don't need to make a profit, but I need to keep my payments as low as humanly possible, including property management fees.

I think your odds are small, but greatly improved if you approach them with your logic, and as a human. 

It's the struggle between being a caring, compassionate human being and running a business.

We would be able to put our capital together and invest as partners, although we are still trying to gain as much knowledge as humanly possible before our first REI.