My real-estate work, for example, is focused on litigation (in addition to antitrust, appeals, and general business litigation).

What I do I go to my county courthouse to the civil record department ans ask for list of lis pendens.

Being criminal is possible, but not by the contract with the bank (violating the bank contract is a civil matter); there are state laws in some places that prohibit "rent skimming" practices and make that a crime.

Also if the borrower files litigation that could make the money you get paid with zero return for a very long time.So once I analyze that it does not seem as appealing for the risk.

If they aren't a good tenant and you need them to leave, figure out a way to do this while avoiding further litigation.

@Rao V. if the people are physically at the house with their stuff the police consider it a civil mater (eviction).

I am not saying no one should have these things I certainly do.My point was if someone is just starting out in the bizz they do not need to pay thousands of dollars for course's that will talk about all sorts of different strategies, Land Trusts. off shore entities  etc etc.A RE attorney  in your state or state were your working for a few billable hours will give you all the info that you would need to get started.And I guess I have been very fortunate I have done quite a bit of RE over the last 40 years and other than business litigation IE  stuff that is covered by E and O or minor partners taking a shot at us..

However, this is something every landlord near a military installation should be aware of:The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. §§ 3901-4043) is a FEDERAL law aimed at establishing civil protections for active duty servicemembers. 

I was motivated to take the next steps-April-Dec 2015- paid off as much student loan debt as possible and researched RE investing-December 2015- found BiggerPockets. 2016-Continued pursuing my civil engineering degree while working three jobs.

Once you have boundary and topo.. then off to your civil to design...