The majority of Latin Renters are like planting a tree.

It's not cheap, which is why you occasionally see restaurants or bars with a bank vault in them.We're also moving into a time where office in general is probably going to suffer.

If I look back on my career it went like this.1  18 yo  real estate license sell land in northern CA and buy tax sale and foreclsoures. 2. 30 jump into working with big syndicators doing their land deals  1099  base fee and up side.3. 35 Lucked into owning HML 250 investors 50 million under management  sell that4. 38 ish  luck into Timber business in Oregon do that for 8 years along with developing subdivisions in Oregon and selling to builders.5. 45ish  build one of the top 5 foreclosure buying companies in Portland market 100 plus deals a year plus get back into HML6. 47  HML takes off foreclosure to competitive roll up to 35 million out in the HML bizz but NO investors making bank.7.  52 THE GFC all of us lenders and many owners of real estate suffer big time myself included.. 8.  54  start buying SFR rentals in mid west buy 350 of them.. 9   56  Hate SFR rental business in Mid west sell entire portfolio 5 years ago10. 56/1/2 Found new construction  great spreads kept my great banking relationships. 

Let's say they aren't for the newbie investor.Your sweat equity is the effort you put in to increase the value of a property, you don't need to make saw dust and swing a hammer, you could oversee work, plant shrubs, design the landscaping, it's the difference in the actual expenses of increasing value to the value you end up with after work is completed. :)

So the key is finding the people who have property they aren't really thinking of selling yet, until you meet up and that seed gets planted.

Does anyone have a particularly daunting tale of long suffering? 

In other words, the flooring suffered some damage (in which you charged other tenants in the past) but didn’t necessarily replace.

it's interesting the GTA is suffering from this fraud when I handled dozens of the exact same type of fraud going back to 1991 and I know for a fact Stewart Title and Chicago Title (now owned by Fidelity National Title) both suffered from the same fraud then. 

They may live in a 300 sq ft apartment somewhere and have been locked down for so long they are suffering mentally.

Keep sending outbound emails and calls and keep planting seeds that will flourish in a few months