Nate, I want to be clear that the names I provided earlier are individuals I have never personally met, never collected any fees from, in any capacity whatsoever and I only know of them because they have done dozens of deals with many of my past clients (these have been very wealthy, successful and extremely diligent investors) and those are the two companies that have consistently been utilized by my clients over the years.

I am continuing to learn the ins and outs of the RE business, have done a number of deals, and have good financial and contract experience that has been extremely helpful in establishing myself.

That for me is extremely unprofessional and likely to back fire on you.

Just to emphasize what others have said, collections and judgments are both extremely negative signs, and a judgment from a landlord makes it pretty clear what the most likely future event is here.

St Louis is an extremely affordable market and there are numerous opportunists for investment.

What it boils down to is you can change nothing and every thing is extremely expensive.You need to thoroughly investigate the regulations and the costs to do it historic as opposed to modern reno.

If the person who owes you ever has a job, a bank account, or any valuable asset it is extremely easy to garnish.

I ultimately ended up going with the Maytag Maxima series and I'm extremely satisfied. 

It came up and the listing price was extremely high, I checked the following week and someone purchased the home during the OO period and the broker is a guy that mainly deals with investors.

My e-mail address does not end in .gov which means I do not work for them and do not have access to classified stuff.Know this: I am still highly involved and extremely motivated to see this to the end.