Not unless you want to face some stiff penalties from the IRS.

One other thing, just remember its probably better to wait on a good tenant that will *hopefully* not stiff you than to have a tenant who shows a pattern of not being financially responsible. 

Even if I trusted you completely, I've got no guarantee that one of your other customers isn't going to stiff you and put you in a financial bind, and with you having half of the money for the job before you even start, that leaves me with very little leverage with which to convince you to finish my job when you start having to "prioritize" work and robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Imagine having a property with a stiff mortgage, where you really need to income to make the payment.

If planking is stiff, hardibacker or durock bedded in thinset, creating a monolithic substrate is best option and will take out smaller waves if done correctly.

You can either let them pay the difference, which they will likely stiff you or you put it back on the market, to which you know lost 2 weeks marketing.

And there are bad areas of the city From what I see now competition for single family houses is very stiff.  

The government says that there can be lead residues inside the old water heater that people may be exposed to and you cannot sell them without a stiff penalty.

We can do garnishments here, and I want tenants with something to lose if they stiff me.

I am not a white collar landlord therefor nobody stiffs me and walks away scot free.