Don't give yourself an easy fear-based excuse to sit on the sidelines any longer.

In particular, the court found the threat of a county tax foreclosure can be used by the trial court as evidence of a ‘distressed conveyance’ under RCW 61.34.The lesson to be learned by Washington State real estate investors is that Washington courts will do whatever is necessary to find some excuse to protect a homeowner who the courts believe is being taken advantage of by the investor even if the parties at the time believed it was truly an arms length transaction."

And their excuses, which are many, never included the truth that their systems are broken.

Excessive use of caps, improper use of mixed tense and pronouns, little to no punctuation, implied time pressure, unwarranted excuses for limited availability ("out of town" constantly), elusive third parties ("sick friends", etc), requesting payment for or from third parties. 

Agree with Deanna; The tenant(s) are entitled, by virtue of the lease, to "quiet enjoyment" and peeking over the fence or conjuring up a lame excuse to get entry too frequently creates a nuisance. 

If they aren't, they'll come up with excuses and improperly calculate your DTI and such.

Maybe everyone else that responded to this post is great with tools and can do repairs themselves or keeps a list of contractors handy that will respond immediately, but what if you're on vacation or at work and you don't have a property manager that will take care of these issues......tenants do not respond to kindly when you give excuses instead of answers Just my 2 cents   

What I mean by that, is they stop paying, they give excuses to a timid landlord who gives them extra time and extra time and then finally move out when the notice is placed on the door.  

I have a few contacts, but they seem to be lukewarm as buyers always having excuses, even when the houses I find are great for a wholesale.

Establishing the plan linked to a qualifying business and then investing with the plan.I have not gone back through the details of this thread, but our general viewpoint is that you should be legitimately self-employed in some fashion because that makes sense for you, not as an excuse simply to establish a Solo 401(k).