You still need to have a heightened level of pleadings if you are going after someone incorporated, a higher burden for production of evidence, and service upon the registered agent as well as the individual you wish to sue.

It's normal to feel heightened anxiety on the first deal.

Owning debt is a much better bet so net debtors will benefit from hyper or even heightened inflation at the expense of lenders.

People love to complain about the failure of the security folks when planes are hijacked, but often these are the same people that complain about heightened security.

I'm simply offering an alternative viewpoint based on the current market conditions and the heightened competition.It's easy to tell people to put sticky notes on someone's door, but what is the true cost and benefit? 

Is there a way to approach them that would heighten the chances of an agreement?

Provided you weren't trying to dump under performing properties at the time, you may have experienced some short term heightened turnover if tenants lost jobs in the recession, but I still would think that replacement tenants would have been easily found as it is not like all of sudden millions of people no longer needed housing to stay in, so everyone would eventually land somewhere, right, particularly if you are in an upper income area, where unemployment wasn't nearly as badly affected? 

That sounds like a great strategy...it requires a lot of cash though.What are your thoughts about holding leveraged real estate wrt heightened inflation expectations?

I would rather lend to someone I know personally and that knows me personally because I think it heightens the payback probability and allows me to judge the most important thing here which is character.  

If their interest rate is higher and compensates them more then the heightened risk of non-collection may or may not be worth the additional interest collected.