Enterprising blood-sucking-leaches, er, I mean lawyers, will search the public records looking for people who own multiple properties, and then find a reason to sue them. 

I'd put in 15k or so plus six months of sweat, blood, whatever it took to restore some rock solid mid century beauty.

If prices are too high now, you could either hoard the cash and wait for blood in the streets during the next downturn, or dump that cash into your highest-cost (ie, interest rate) mortgage, and then pull a HELOC on that so you can deploy the cash when it IS affordable again.

But it works, simplified, like if you owed $500 to CA but paid state XX $300, then you only have to pay CA the $200 difference.CA may not be able to get blood from a turnip, but they will suck that turnip dry before they let it go.Likewise if you, say, play professional sports for a team in state XX, live in state XX, make $20,000,000 a year, play 1 out of 20 games in CA, they want that 1/20th of that two million taxed in CA...but they will give a credit for the taxes you paid in state XX according to the interstate agreement. 

But I never said "yo blood gimmie 100 geez ma homie lemmie try to make some doh".

We had been evicted from our apt, (long story) and I was giving blood on a weekly basis for food money, to the point my veins finally collapsed and I was no longer allowed to give.It was at this point, on one of many sleepless nights, at 3 o'clock in the morning, that an older silver haired investor spoke to me through my television.

I can just imagine the sharks starting to circle now that they smell the blood of fresh meat in the water. 

Technically, if the company takes a loss I'm still owed my initial investment plus interest but as they say, "You can't get blood out of a turnip."  

., too much toilet paper in the toilet, rice clogging the pipe) it is time to tell her any further plumber visits will be charged to her.I agree with ignoring the idiot requests.Some landlords require that all repair requests that do not involve "fire, flood or blood" must be made in writing (NOT phone calls, NOT texts) and sent via snail mail to the landlord and will be handled in the order they are received. 

There was blood and dirt all over our new living room couch.