Eventually, the investor and my family parted ways and long story short we were left to sell the house and remaining profit.

Good Evening--I am a landlord back home on the east coast but I have been renting in LA for the past 2 years to get settled in a new area.Long story short: Our building (quadplex) just sold 3 months after we moved in.  

Over seven figures of income to my bottom line and millions of dollars in private capital invested in my business can be directly traced back to BP.  

I often read stories about real estate investors flipping 25 to 30 properties per year. 

I hear and read a lot of success stories but i hardly ever hear about the setbacks and/or failures so I decided to share mine in the hope that it would give me some motivation to continue on to success.

Long story short, my ex had complete control over me and my finances, so I couldn't do anything about it.Thank you for your responses!

This one story a friend of mine is going through had me scratching my head too.She owns a SFH in a neighborhood that turned bad, bad over the past 2-3 years.

Talk about stepping in poo.The moral of this story is talk to everyone you can.

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To be legal, you will likely have to rip off all the siding and add shear support to be earthquake safe for a two story house.3) What's your exit strategy?