Often times the threat of an eviction which will show up on their record is enough to get them to leave.

What do you see as opportunities and threats? 

The US "democracy" is a faint, it's a perception of choice and that curtain has been recently drawn back and literally out-right stated, in relation to why Trump is such a threat as he threatens those prevailing powers who control things, without elections, since '47'. 

The only leverage you have to get the seller to negotiate is the threat to back out of the deal.

We then ranked states from best to worst for each category.Drought: The likelihood of negative economic impacts as a result of drought, the number of people and fresh water sources exposed, and the state's ability to recover or adapt to a future with droughtExtreme heat: Projected number of dangerously hot days by 2050 and the percentage of people vulnerable to dangerously high temperaturesWildfires: Fraction of housing units directly or indirectly exposed to wildfire, as well as wildfire likelihood and home susceptibilityFlooding: Percentage of people living in 100 and 500-year floodplains, projected 30-year increase in number of properties with flood risk, and the percentage of the population living in a 100-year coastal floodplainClimate change preparedness: How well each state is responding to current and future climate change threats

Maybe I was lucky that I have started investing before information became ubiquitous on the internet.The biggest fear (being cash flow negative) is not even a real threat, because it is manageable and it will fix itself over time.

Their threat is they will go to court and trial by jury.anyone else have experienced such a thing and have any advice or suggestions to deal with this situation?

I even took one down a while back from the amount of threats from one of these mortgage fraud guys in Metro Atlanta. 

@Bruce Woodruff why worry about the amount of equity in a property.Let the threat of lawsuit determine the amount of debt on a property is no way to run a RE property or business.

But Cleveland had all their data destroyed in a cyber attack.