To avoid doing the wrong things and how to deal with mistakes and setting up systems & procedures.

Go change the locks, clean it up, and get it rented.In the meantime, reflect on what happened, review your state law, and build something into your lease or your policies and procedures that helps you through this if/when it happens again.Here's a start for Indiana: https://www.indybizlaw.com/lan...

And an officer pointed his rifle at a car with a reported gunman speeding away, but did not pursue it.A police spokesman said the responding officers correctly followed department procedures.

My reference is that there are procedures for delay and depending on the state and the situation, if the lender exceeds the allowed number of days, they have to start the process over again.

Take your experience and create standard operating procedures that you can use as you grow your portfolio and manage more rentals...

They just don't have the desire to learn the new investing procedures, that's all.

From the lawsuit side I wouldFocus on your insurance coverage and your operating and rental procedures.  

The Fair Housing Act also provides procedures for handling individual complaints of discrimination.

Get 5 people to massage each extremity (one extremity each) of your body, and check this, all at the same time.

We go over Asset protection, tax write-offs, exit strategies, systems, procedures, contracts & deeds, title, escrow, how to approach people and so on.