Usually a vulnerable old person with limited grip on his faculties - is Prime target for wholesalers.Be happy with $100, lot of these guys like to brag about tying up a place with $0. 

Beyond retail, the casualties could be vulnerable companies like school-lunch provider Aramark, janitorial services firm ABM Industries, and sanitation firm Waste Management.

I may start looking at other markets, but seems everything is inflamed. 

Without a solid team like that, I feel its too much risk to be left vulnerable to a downturn when you are needing to offload the property or end up holding at a negative cash flow each month while you wait for trades to finish etc.

Is that making me vulnerable or unprotected?

My mission is to leverage the power of REI to defend the poor, weak and vulnerable in our world.  

And I do acknowledge that they will probably be more willing if they know they're in a vulnerable position legally speaking (regardless of whether I plan to take advantage of that or not)To reply to your point about the estate proceeding with a short sale, they won't.

Isnt that the time when you are the most vulnerable and need more protection?

An ideal business structure consists of an operating entity that does not own any vulnerable assets and a holding entity that actually owns the business's assets.

What keeps going through my mind is how vulnerable the "private lenders" are that are talked about everyday on this board and at local REIA's.