Unfortunately some of the investors I've spoken to have this mentality that "the best deals aren't listed", which is a ludicrous idea to me, because no one is exactly going to call you to an alleyway pulling a house out of trench coats, but nonetheless, I'm curious as to what the biggerpockets' community thinks of this situation.

I think there is a "penny wise, pound foolish" trend happening.  

Lesson learned.Another rental property had the copper pipes stolen while it was vacant.

Been house hacking for the last 3 years so I could apply every penny I make to RE. 

Give tenant security deposit back $1100  minus the water/sewer bill  (around $150) and they will vacate the premiss on the 29th before the court dateor take them to court spend $600 in attorney fees and court eviction paperwork and keep the $1100 but tenant can do alot more damage and will not be gone till November 15th - 25th. attorney said its a easy win and will get judgement but no money because they have noneso it comes down to $500 loss for getting my property back 2 or 3 weeks earlier and knowing they wont do any more damaged.I am leaning towards giving security back and letting them win but they will not get a penny till attorney says its ok and they have vacated the property and did not cause any more damage, sucks but either way I lose which option would you choose?

If this is your primary residence, every penny of the gain is tax-free, whether you are single or married.  

As much as I would really love to jump in a buy something now in a hot market like ATL or Phoenix I don't have a penny to put down so I am really not sure how I could make that happen.

If the business went under and your loan was part of that, you may be low on the list to get paid and it may only be pennies on the dollar, if at all. 

@Traver Freeman and @James BarnesTraver,Late to the conversation but I like the discussion and as always I have two pennies of my own to contribute.Let me first say, you are a sucker in the making.

I had a client who had to re-plumb half of a duplex at a cost of almost $5000 because there was a leak in the slab because it was old galvanized pipe whereas the other half of the unit had new copper.