In judicial foreclosure states, you have to file a lawsuit to foreclose so I've gotten used to the process of borrowers putting up defenses, which is very similar to these 4 lawsuits where the borrower is the plaintiff.Our servicer has been named as a defendant in the 4 cases, 2 of which were by the same borrower.At the beginning, you need to be clear on who is defending whom.

states that for all evictions, except “nuisance” evictions, the tenant can claim as a defense that they have applied for rental assistance.

Do I have any reason to return the security deposit / any defense if I choose not to?

So the more baskets you have you are making what the person gets worth less.First, insurance is really your first line of defense.

Often if you go to the cost seg company you end up paying the same or less and some of the companies include audit defense for free in their overall price charged versus the accountant subbing it out to them to do the engineer part if there is an audit the accountant will charge usually per hour additional money to defend.There is nothing to say you have to sell all those houses you could sell some and then buy say a 3 million type property NNN.

A public adjuster is the equivalent of a defense attorney.

Start out by playing defense and reduce your expenses.

Their defense is that there is no 'time of the essence' clause.I have several buyers who have assured me that they will take on any legal issues, but he filed a Lis Pendens to stop me from closing.

The best defense is to manage to the lease.  

As a former social worker, I am becoming very aware that as landlords and property managers we are becoming the first line of defense to protect vulnerable tenants.