When you’re investing with leverage, I think it makes more sense to do it in a market that’s showing plenty of signs for growth.

You have to skip that rhetoric, show what you did in LA, and have someone there who is in the neighborhood you want to buy in looking at the yard signs to see who lists flipped and done projects and who is selling the ones that need to be flipped.

It's difficult to see how a tenant will be after screened and signing a lease.

I find that putting a utility cap in the lease agreement they sign and calling their attention to it really helps make them more aware that they'll have to pay for excess usage so, fortunately, I haven't had to actually bill anyone yet, but the language is there if I needed to. 

The people that reached out to me that did sign up weren't very positive about it. 

I know some landlord's show up with something for them to sign or fill out that they previously (on purpose) forgot to give them, but you could also just be upfront and say a visit is part of your screening process - you check the condition of the rooms to see how the unit is being taken care of.

(Let's put up beware of dogs signs and have a pack of dobermans patrolling the grounds.)  

It's difficult to see how a tenant will be after screened and signing a lease.

Thankfully, we are already getting inquires and website hits and we have only just broken ground on and put a single sign on one lot. 

Suing was their way to create a record...coincidentally the client probably would have just signed an easement for them without the suit...but they chose to file first and then discuss.