If your heating/cooling bill is normally $1200/year - then $240 of that ($1200 * 20%) is lost with old windows.

Then Regan got elected, home rates went to 20% and I lost all.

If it's a small amount, the tax savings could easily be lost if you buy a bad deal too quickly. 

Jimmy,To start, the lower the amount of money you put down the lower the risk because if you loose the property for some reason you haven' t lost any of your money.Getting in is difficult with no money down, though BP will make it sound quit easy.  

I locate lost heirs to mineral interests for my day job and I am pretty good at finding people but these people seem to have evaporated into thin air.

I have been to seminars on so many subjects I lost count. 

All is not completely lost.

You pretty well have to live with whatever they chose to do from this point on or evict.You trained them to be bad tenants and now they own you until they push you so far that you realise money lost in the short term is less important than being taken advantage of and manipulated by your tenants.

After several years of working with them, I know of no investor who has ever lost dearly on an investment with them.

I will do some staging because I know I will regret it if other people tell me I lost opportunities by not making the effort to stage.