Our goal is to break me out of my cubicle and be financial free by the end of his time in the Air Force.My only experience with real estate is the purchase of our first home in the beautiful Curtis Park neighborhood of Sacramento (one month after my PhD defense).

Additionally, I would encourage every person to LEARN how to use a firearm for self defense from a proessional firearms defense training center.

I often get a sense that this stigma of where or who I got the note from is a default defense to a lacking of the skills and knowledge to place a value on said note.  

Learn the details of rental requirements and tenant rights as a defensive education - you desire to be the investor, your survival is at stake!

In @David Zheng's defense, I understand what he's saying...when you get a curt "where do you buy your places" in a PM, you're like, "Um, how about a 'hello' first?"

Daughter doesn't have foreclosure defenses, simply an eviction?

@Christopher J Lemmon I read your heartfelt defense of investing in D class neighborhoods in the other thread. 

Carrying insurance through the borrower or through Lender Placed Insurance will be your first line of defense against force majeure.  

The landlord is also barred in any action brought by the tenant to recover the deposit from asserting any claim or raising any defense for retaining any of the deposit unless the landlord shows that circumstances beyond the landlord's control prevented the landlord from providing the statement within the twenty-one days or that the tenant abandoned the premises as defined in RCW 59.18.310.

I have seen deals die a day before they were supposed to close because the wholesaler was not entirely truthful to the escrow officer.Quite literally, the escrow officer is sort of like your criminal defense attorney.