@Andrew Cordle was spot on in his post.

While I've never actually sent letters to any vacant homeowners spotted while "driving for dollars" I will say this - I've seen the words "tired landlord" thrown around more than once around here.  

And some issues were being caused by them, like when they'd overload a circuit with several high-draw electronics and such.  

Twice as much housing available in LA suddenly means house prices are cut by at least half.So now we're in a spot where the driverless taxi has reduced our #2 expense, transportation, to a few cents per mile in a driverless car.

It's not always spot on but it is very close.  

This is the beauty and sometimes the trouble of landlording, we would love it if there were always hard and fast answers but sometimes you have to make on the spot decisions.  

After he pointed out where the tree was infected and pointing out the spots where there was massive sap bleeding, I made the call to cut it down, he said he could just trim it up but the tree was going to drop at some point in the not to distant future (1-5 years was his estimate based on the damage that had already been done).  

lets say you spot a deal on the block but there is no running water, gas is shut off, electricity is off …there is no way you can check plumbing, furnace, etc ..some REOs even say “seller will not activate utilities” …I think you could activate utilities in your name …but then how about all the outstanding bills that might hit you ?!

I just recently came back from HAWAI, and seeing the insane prices there and other popular vacation spot prices, $400-600K for acreage and waterfront is not a bad deal.First of all, I had spent the last for few weeks learning how to buy WATERFRONT.and BOY is it complicated: Buffer zones, Buy downs, Easements and Right of Way.

The industry “sweet spot” is a lot rent of $495, he explained, but raising it by another $5 “could mean death.”