Otherwise, many agents will ask permission of a title company to use a conference room or spare office.

B/c it gives me access to certain useful resources, and for some reason ( I truly don't understand why) it confers a degree of cred I'd otherwise lack.

Looking broke is your first line of defense, lawyers wont take a contingency case if they dont see a payday.Anyway, you shouldn't let all this keep you from buying.

I was involved in a eviction case several years ago in which a defense attorney argued that since the judge did not agree with one of my damage claims deducted from a deposit, that it was a violation of the RLTO and should trigger the security deposit violation penalty.  

I'll always set up my defense before I go play ball in the field.

At industry conferences borrowers bemoan the fact that not only are rates higher, but spreads have increased as well, putting continued pressure on interest rates up and down the debt capital stack.Cap rate forecasts have been inching higher.

At the last real estate conference I attended, a lot of agents agreed that condo hotels are the new trend in larger cities for out-of-state and international investors. 

Most tenants will disappear before the court hearing because they know they have no defense.

@Lucia Rushton - Just noticed that you also will be attending the BP Conference next week! 

You will again be up-sold on a higher level event(conference), then another,then another.