Might be a chance in Small Claims Court if you want to go that direction.....but you'll end up with a bad tenant then.I doubt just talking with her and asking for $$ will work....

Along with things like DST, 1031 exchanges, wholeselling, syndication, buying tax liens, court house step auctions,  the list goes.

A real estate agent friend told us it was going into foreclosure and we did some research to find the court auction How did you finance this deal?

That is the first question any attorney/courts will ask.60 days is best practice and it is what I do and recommend to clients.

You are in one of the heaviest regulated, litigious places on earth and need to know that the contract you use has been proven in court.

There is a tiny chance that, after a thorough review of your circumstances and studying recent court precedents, we can find some room for an aggressive position on one of them, but notice the word "tiny" that I used.Excellent point made by @Richard Duane McClellan: if the existing deck cost $20k, and only $5k of it had been depreciated, then you can write off the remaining $15k of it at the time you replace it with a new one. 

But before you do that, record your contract at the court house because some people are scum and will go behind your back. 

Not sure how much your deposit is, but I doubt its worth the time to the seller to get caught up in court costs and lawyer fees over a few grand. 

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I've filed evictions for just cause everything from having pit bulls to drug raids with no avail beware of the Stockton City Court system I'm looking for other property owners to do a class action suit for they took money with no intent invicted anybody