Sometimes, the threat of legal action can prompt a more serious response, but it’s also possible they’ve hit significant roadblocks that they’re not effectively communicating.4.

My friended up lowering his rent so the tenants would move, maybe an idle threat, maybe not. 

Don’t want it to sound like a threat of some “finger wagging” or “slap on the wrist”

Its just too big a threat.

That threat alone may prompt them to cooperate and get things back on track here.

Just knock on wood we can build this way without the threats and worry of rampant thievery.

They want to “instantly” double or triple their money in cyber currency.  

But with horrible returns and the threat of statewide anti-landlord laws even that seems bad.

But the borrower wouldn't cooperate, things dragged out, and the AG started making vague threats.

what I saw happen personally was a revolt. instead of cash call to the original GP they used that cash to hire attorney and boot the GPs out with threats of bad things to happen to them.. a couple of the LPS stepped into the GP roll with the attorney guiding them and well folks then put more money in and the projects were ultimately lost a few years later.