Cases like Al-Marri show us that there are violent killers who want to kill us who aren't afraid to live in our neighborhoods and I know from my own moment of truth that there is often insufficient time for police to arrive and intervene.

As  Roy said in virtually no case will a BK stop the taxes from being due, past or future@Keith Thompson In MD you can petition the court to allow you to preserve the property.

SB 1069 proved to be the difference maker in pushing the Santa Clara planning commission to approve my petition for a variance to legalize an un-permitted secondary dwelling unit behind my home in Santa Clara.  

My first order of postcards should be arriving in the mail within the next couple of days.

I arrived at a median Cap Rate of 10.9%.So this should give you a good idea of where Cap Rates are in the South Shore neighborhood. 

You said it's been a while since you used a portfolio loan, so how did you arrive at a conclusion with just the rent and asking price as an input?

I just sent my letters out 3 days ago, The letters arrived yesterday to the people and I got 4 calls.None so far today though... :/  but this gives me a bit of time to catch up and do some analysis.

You really should double/triple check how you are arriving at that number. 

You probably also want to do a walk-through of the unit prior to returning the deposit to ensure that there is no damage that you should be collecting for (you don't want the new guy to be paying for damage done before he arrived).I'm not an attorney (nor am I a tremendously experience landlord), so take that for what it's worth...

@Nick Hedberg Nick a dispersal extension is a paper acknowledging it is ok with you if the title company waits until the docs arrive to disperse funds.