The reason I do this is to prevent being called every week over dumb stuff.

Still, if I got a nickel everytime a broker (or attorney for that matter) didn't return a call, my cap rate on my phone bill will make it unnecessary to invest in CRE at all.

It prevents water and wind from entering the structure, while allowing the structure to breathe.Vinyl siding, even when applied correctly, is not waterproof.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

I suspect that the countries where people have more respect for the wealthy and aspire to be like them have at least as many inherited wealthy people and crooked wealthy people as the rest of the world.As the countries that followed Marx showed, it is much better to harness the greed and ambition inherent in humans than to try to prevent it in an attempt to stop the small number of wealthy people who do not deserve their wealth.

You prevent your buyer from circumventing you by getting the properties under contract.

Original authors Martin Bailey, Douglas Elmendorf and Robert Litan (May 2008) The Great Credit Squeeze: How It Happened, How to Prevent Another Economics Studies at Brookings, Washington.

How are you preventing similar failures from happening again?

There are ways to prevent this but the average person doesn't know.

The MLS rules may prevent you from marketing a property on the MLS, but the law does not.