@Wayne Brooks  without knowing details who knows whats happening.. but usually you have affirmative coverage or you have an act that your accused of that is not covered.. that as you state could be the case here.. 

I usually say something like "I was cheeking public records and I found   .   .   .

Being a member of a protected class doesn’t provide extra privileges it is used to insure equal treatment

Ooooh, one more question: For those of you working within Washington State, do you have favorite tools/venues to find off-market opportunities, or do you do it the "usual" ways (research, hunting for "motivated" sellers, driving for dollars, building up connections with people in the know, etc.)?

Is that normal or usually expected to break even?

If your business rents your own property (such as office building), there are extra tax deductions depending on your income level in the new law. 

Once you start to get in the thousands of dollars in security deposit value, you could gain a few extra hundred dollars at the end of the year, and you could keep compounding the earnings into new CDs and eventually a snowball effect will be created. 

It may not require much money to get started in that but, depending how you were grown is to do usually requires lying to the seller it's not as easy as you thought. 

Meetups are usually monthly.  

I'm usually asked why, well I was in the proccess of growing my two construction companies at the time and didn't want to take man power away from that.