If you damage your credit, you can still move forward if you're not depending on the typical strategies everyone else is using.Restrictions:  Fear will handcuff you, and is almost impossible to overcome. 

Pricing will overcome any objection. 

@Peter Walther How do these exclusions factor into the claim analysis:Defects, liens, encumbrances, adverse claims, or other matters(a) created, suffered, assumed, or agreed to by the Insured Claimant;(b) not Known to the Company, not recorded in the Public Records at Date of Policy, but Known to the Insured Claimant and not disclosed in writing to the Company by the Insured Claimant prior to the date the Insured Claimant became an Insured under this policy;

This became a problem when one of them, who had apparently been there a few weeks, didn’t want to leave and claimed he had squatter’s rights via Colorado’s adverse possession laws, which of course requires 18 years of open possession or 7 years of paying property taxes/color of title, not two weeks of crashing on the couch, but you can’t argue with crazy.

Your net worth is your network as they say, and you need to meet lots of new people in order to grow your mind and over come limiting beliefs.

The biggest issue/character flaw I will have to overcome, in order to be successful, is moving from analysis to action.

Of course these are hurdles that can be overcome, but why bother if you are just investing in small properties.

When you do that, you have to send them an "adverse action letter", which basically says that you turned them down based on something in their credit report, who you got the credit report from, and offer to give them a copy of that credit report. 

@Karen F. even if you don't charge a fee, if you do run a credit/background check and use that information (credit, residential, or criminal) from that report in making your adverse decision, you are required to report it.

Would love to have a conversation with, or be referred to, anyone that has had success with adverse possession in Texas or is familiar with it's workings.