It won't contain all of the volume in the event of a total failure, but can hold a lot.

In 2010, I was looking to open a wine bar in Los Angeles. I made a costly mistake of partnering with the wrong person. This led me to losing thousands of dollars. Basically, my former partner chose to prioritize his ...

I would like to add one more thing, I never come in behind another trades person and criticize their work unless it was an absolute failure.

Most of my financial successes have come from following basic sound principles, and all of my financial failures have come from over leverage or making things too complicated. 

My plan is to approach the owners once the wholesalers have released from failure to perform. 

Those bond losses combined with banking runs already caused two record setting bank failures. 

You are not responsible for the failures or successes of their business.

Calculate failure.  

I take every opportunity to replace failure points with plumbing. 

Every HUD property comes with a PCR (Property Condition Report), in addition, the ones that qualify for FHA or a 203K loan will also have a PCS (Property Condition Summary) which details the repairs needed and assigns a dollar amount that can be used an an escrow holdback to do the loan, then get the repairs done after purchase.See if you lender will take those into account as a reason that there may be a failure on the appraisal.