For example, here in Las Vegas, if a tenant doesn’t pay rent but hires an attorney and drags the process out in court, it usually takes somewhere between 17 and 35 days before they’re out.

Some more options for investors facing similar problems with Beattie, Blacktip, or other builders:1) Contact a real estate attorney to advise you on your options.2) File a complaint with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) (more info: https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/file-a-complaint/)3) File a complaint with the Attorney General for the State of Florida (more info: https://www.myfloridalegal.com/how-to-contact-us/file-a-complaint)4) For filing a small claim (under $8,000) in Lee County Civil Court (more info: https://www.leeclerk.org/departments/courts/small-claims)5) Contact WINK News with your story.

Besides fines, if the note blows up and you go to court to collect your loan could be thrown out, you were acting illegally as a lender.Now, POF!

You may pursue this rent later through small claims court; however, again, that may be more trouble than it is worth if the amount is low enough. 

Tenant and I agreed to meet and thank God I went to the Nevada court website because I found 5 bankruptcies within 3 months in his name all from different plantiffs. 

An option to purchase real property that includes or is combined or executed concurrently with a residential lease agreement, together with the lease, is considered an executory contract for conveyance of real property.There's more. but suffice it to say, someone misunderstood the law"Pretending that an executory contract is something else by renaming it will fool no one, particularly after the document is deconstructed and scrutinized in court.

.** WARNING** You have to get special permission from the bankruptcy court to take on debt.

Quote from @James McGovern: Did the hard money lender not include verbiage to shortcut having to go to court to foreclose? 

.$30k is not worth going to court for...Best of luck but not many people are willing to lend that little of an amount.

So even if you pick a state with stronger protections like WY or NV, the cause of action arose in the state where the tenant fell, so it could be that the court where the accident happened has jurisdiction.