As far as actual risk, make your deals are fat and make sure you have  a conservative amount of money in reserve. 

Don't use excel to manage all leads. it's possible, yes. but you're going to run into issues and ain't no body got time for issues!

As the others here mentioned before, it's critical to check with the local planning commission and city/county governing bodies.  

The hot water temperature was 140 degrees F at the time of testing.

But the weird thing is no body knows who pays taxes, even on record the seller said; "yeah I was confused about that for the past 10-15 years"

Luckily my deal is fat and now my CCROI is about 10% worse.

It's one of those things that, like the shrunken head said in "Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban" (about the pea soup at The Leaky Caldron), "Make sure you eat it before it eats you".As I understand your post, you're complaining about free advertising which is working for you: steady stream of calls coming in.That said, of course, the poster could have just fat-fingered the number and posted yours instead of someone else's - or did they call out you or your company by name?

This is typically the case here in the Bay Area, too.Typing Alexandria Louisiana in the body of a post so that locals to OP, hopefully, can chime in and tell us how it is in LA.

But you've got to practice and get your body language down. 

You got yourself into it and can certainly get yourself out of it.Trim the fat...If you're spending too much of your income and falling down on your obligations, the party is over.