That city has some significant financial issues that could cause property taxes to skyrocket.

My tenant changed out the thermostat in the unit (a lease violation) which caused the heat in the unit to not function.

Could these rowdy customers be the cause of the high vacancy, even for businesses that would only be open during the day?

It's typically necessary for engineering and design firms to insure against mistakes made in a design that causes injury to people.

He did try to initially claim rights to the land but gave up on that cause right off the bat.

If you do things that cause bank employees to spend time addressing petty delaying tactics, they just caused a financial loss to the lender as those employees do get paid.

I'll preface that I have no experience with short sales - though theoretically possible, in practice, they do not exist here.That said, we have a clause in our agreement of purchase and sale that allows the seller to cancel w/o cause at the cost of 2.5 EMD.

I guess it's clear from his thoughts that he doesn't think Blackstone and so on are artificially inflating prices, or that the weakening middle class, or middle class debt (student loans, for example), or that our economy 70% based on consumer spending (read: a populace that can afford to buy things) are weakness to cause one to steer clear of long term holding of real estate.

It's almost as if this was all orchestrated to intentionally cause the bubble and come in the back door cleaning up the mess to repeat the process churning profits.I don't know if securitized portfolios of SFDs will fly, Warren Buffet seems to think so I believe, he has a pretty good crystal ball in manipulating or seeing the interactions between market industries.

People shot over a real estate dispute (or probably more likely, the frustration caused by the disputes..)I heard something the other day about treating other well.. even under a bad situation..Everyone you meet is fighting their own war you are not aware of, so be nice..