Fair housing laws state:If you or someone associated with you:Have a physical or mental disability (including hearing, mobility and visual impairments, chronic alcoholism, chronic mental illness, AIDS, AIDS Related Complex and mental retardation) that substantially limits one or more major life activitiesHave a record of such a disability orAre regarded as having such a disabilityyour landlord may not:Refuse to let you make reasonable modifications to your dwelling or common use areas, at your expense, if necessary for the disabled person to use the housing.

This means they've already made that mental jump to being able to imagine what a completed product would look like, and can often look past the stuff that is incomplete.Those are the two circumstances I *might* let a buyer through before completion.

It's really a mental question for you.

The "this is going to be easy" mentality was never present.

I think you need to adjust your mentality as a landlord.

Mental illness?

Again, I'm baffled by the maverick mentality on protection.

I think that is going to bring a reality shock to my father, who is to some degree mentally living in the RE land of 7 years ago when houses sold in their neighborhood for almost 700k that were complete wrecks.

I think the days of table top LC/CD are behind us given court law and sue happy mentality.

The rent payment and the mortgage payment should be completely independent of each other, financially, mentally and emotionally.