A couple of other 'side benefits of hold in retirement accounts are that in general those accounts are more protected in bankruptcy or lawsuit cases, and if a person has college aged kids assets in retirement accounts are not counted towards financial aid calculations in many cases (but not all). 

You should do your due diligence on any referrals we see a lot of investors get screwed by GCs, fraud, filing bankruptcy, etc..we see it all the time.

This is my assumption as to why we are not getting many SEO leads, despite being ranked 2nd for quite a few keywords.For direct mail, we targeted absentee owners, divorce, NOD, and bankruptcy (I think I'm forgetting one).

learn to manage that and in a few years you will come out stronger.if you are unemployed for a long period of time and have mountains of debt, you should consider bankruptcy, you can file it yourself.

If I filed bankruptcy I'd still be paying most of it back.

A few days later I got a call from a lawyer that works for the HOA saying that the previous owner had 3 of these townhouses and through a bankruptcy the tenant is told to pay rent to them.  

He filed for bankruptcy right before appearing in the eviction court and the eviction case is on an automatic stay.The tenant is still living in the apartment and not picking our calls as we tried to work out. 

He filed for bankruptcy right before appearing in the eviction court and the eviction case is on an automatic stay.

The fact is it takes exactly 2 years of on-time payments on all of your debts to go from bankruptcy to qualifying for a normal mortgage rate.

Prevents you from ever having to file personal bankruptcy in such a case.