My wife and I laugh when my schlage door lock app notifies us they unlocked it 8 hrs after the time they requested an early check in.

By having everything set up prior I developed a relationship with the agent, without ever meeting them until the day I signed for the mortgage.Financing the down payment: Before I started going to showings I unlocked the equity in my house.

Appreciation goes only as far as your willingness and ability to reinvest into the property and unlock it.

Can i cut it out and put in a new piece, or do i have to unlock all of the pieces in the same row, until i reach the damaged one? 

I've been researching the topic for awhile trying to understand the economics of the business and where the "value" can best be unlocked, but it always seems that all the articles I find are a lot of talk with very little substance.

Since you have an automatic gate with personalized codes, do you leave available units unlocked?

Once finished, it reappraised +$95k which unlocked an $85k HELOC to fund the next project!

In my area, taxes for a home are unlocked for the first year of new ownership which brings them up to current market value, then locked after that first year.

I've been researching the topic for awhile trying to understand the economics of the business and where the "value" can best be unlocked, but it always seems that all the articles I find are a lot of talk with very little substance.

Abandonment (implicit or explicit) is a defense against a charge of trespass.In order to establish implicit abandonment, send certified mail to the owner's address(s) of record, do online searches and record each step and each result, talk to known relatives of the owner or the founder(s), take photos and videos tending to show that no one is maintaining the property and particularly that doors and/or windows were/are open/unlocked ,etc.