Failed attempt #1 was pursued with a letter of intent which I sent to the address on file at the assessor's office.

@Ben Gabin what certainty would they have or leverage against you if you fail to pay the 10% back?

How well can you handle an emergency or deal with an abandoned unit that's been trashed by the tenant that failed to pay rent last month?

If I verify this as correct, and plumber's work failed, how can I approach getting my expenses for this damage covered by them.If it is not the plumber's work does anyone have tips on getting my insurance to cover it?

If I identify 5 properties at $150,000 each and one falls through but I am able to close on 4 of them for a total value of $600,000, would I have to pay tax on the $50,000 that I failed to roll into a new property, or would the entire exchange be disregarded due to the 3-property rule?

Cut the water from outside (but they'll probably know how to turn it back on)  If that fails remove the door as above.There is a reason Detroit is a baron wasteland.

If all else fails I'm sure a local hard money lender would love to give a loan out on short notice.

If you overengineer your lease to include a bunch of extra nuisance tasks that you have to do, and you fail to do all those tasks, it looks bad on you as the landlord.To help prevent you from trying to implement every new idea, you must pass it through a well-defined filter.

Nobody wants to listen to the painful journey of hundreds of thousands that fail.

He was calling me every month for three months after asking why it failed.