Thank you for such great tips on how to acquire properties. 

It really depends on the type of investment you are looking to acquire.

Separate two things: possible compensation for her increased costs/damages due to your failure to deliver and he request demand for further compensation.Your lease should say something like “return of deposit is only remedy for failure to deliver”.

Also with the data - can the govt abstract the data to determine a remedy to limit damage ?

@Brian Antonucci  yes, I walk through the unit before move out to give them a chance to remedy items before I withhold deposit. 

This includes fire or electrical hazards, plumbing issues that can result in a lack of hot water or water damage, lack of heat, lead paint remediation, etc.

Ok, a major disappointment, but you’ve acquired some very valuable feedback from the experience: you need to be better at analyzing numbers, managing contractors, or this doesn’t match with your skill set, etc. 

You would acquire the debt. 

Already capital for acquisition is drying up, now all that has to happen is accentuate the problem so there is a form of mass tenant rent defaults and as groundwork is in place for no remedy for landlords, thus a financial catastrophe situation.

Therefore, they may often finance half of the cost of acquiring the loan and pay the rest in cash.