But when you spread your risk over several properties and follow good systems to minimize your risk, you achieve the benefits of diversifying like what's often mentioned in other types of investments.

It was a tough decision,as it is often more difficult for me to say "no" than "let's do it and make it work" so I saw this as a great growth step for me as an investor.

The good news is the deposits on HUDs are low often $500.

Blackmail is an act, often a crime, involving unjustified threats to make a gain or loss to another unless demands are met.

Needless to say I started to question how often my PM's actually get out to the property.

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I travel a lot, and often like to Zillow a city as I'm passing through.

The laws and court system is obscenely tenant friendly, and so there are a lot of crazy punitive laws that landlords have to follow.Also, good luck getting rid of tenants in chicago.

They're not going to do this often so don't request it on every home.

I guess you could turn this into a good deal, maybe looking at the financial statement and seeing if the numbers are inflated (which happens often), maybe you can bring in a tax partner who wouldn't mind taking a short term loss.There are ways to make it work but this is a hard one to turn around and the upside doesn't seem that high for the risk but let me know what you think?