I self-manage across the country.

I am just trying to find out if there is any way I can legally get that money back by charging through rent or something else, or if I am just going to have to suck it up and live with losing the money.I did not have utilities set up to turn off because I cannot turn off the water and electric- I have a pool and pay a company to maintain it weekly, they need water and electric to do that.Which leaves only gas and the gas company in that town has a history of screwing things up and being difficult, which is hard to deal with from across the country, so I just figured I would leave it to help the tenants and me.

It's very tough to sell that kind of country.

However I enjoy almost anything but country.

Another reason banks won't call loans due is because there are millions of houses in this country which are being sold sub-2 and if they called all the loans due, the market would implode even worse.

This is not to say that you are not or anyone else is not.I do have a CPA I could refer to you who is very knowledgable in RE throughout the country.

Local info is going to be best, since conditions are different in different parts of the country.

Quickly...in case you don't know who that is...he was a German interrogator in WW2...he was the most successful interrogator in all of the campaign, regardless of country.

Or do people leave the country, or live with friends/relatives/in shelters, over winter?

Some old country store I reckon...