I could have gone after him for monetary damages but you cant get blood from a stone and I do not want to waste my time pursuing something that isn't there.

For example, I have extensive fire damage to one room.

Sure I might add a little to the stigma of shaaaady real estate people as I'm LEARNING, but who really does more damage, little old me making a couple mistakes as I learn by doing, or the guys out there who intentionally snake people out of their money by "teaching", guys even I'VE met at my early level, at REI meetings just doing one big upsell and stealing money from naive people.

Only because they didn't physically go onto ur rented property, especially if the area that the pics were taken from is the owners property.

The big housing question in 2014: will Mel Watt begin to reverse DeMarco's damage?

Some property damage resulted from unsupervised kids.)2.

Those laws will vary state to state but in most states, including here in FL, a tree falling is an act of god so unless you can prove negligence (such as the tree was dead and rotting and you had warned the owner about the dangers of it falling) then it's going to be on you to fix the damage to your property.

Even in a good situation a bad tenant can easily cause enough damage to eliminate two years of positive cash flow.

No way of knowing until you see how the insurance company assesses the damage.

Keep in mind that the "real" amount of the judgment, i.e. the damages, is $5,000, so negotiate off of that, not the full amount plus interest.