I'm very optimistic about the future of our market.Here are the presentation slides Lon refers to below =============As you may know, Dr.

For example, I have used some guys that excel in the $125,000 range, but would not use them on a high end projects (although they are excellent at their level) and vice versa!

Land Title on Bluemound was excellent.

George,This is excellent advice.  

Be sure to give Bill a vote for his excellent advice, and good luck in your investing.

So its important that everything is recorded so that they can't do this to someone else in the future.On the flip side, the loss rent and legal expenses are piling up, so the financial side of me wants to let it slide.

In today's market it's impossible to get a negative amortizing loan and you're still able to cash flow day 1 in the Bay Area and buy excellently located properties with great fundamentals.

I think that providing excellent service to your tenants is one of the best things you can do for your owners.  

@Stephen Nicholson - excellent advice hereBe a disciplined investor by sticking to the numbers that make financial sense for your target level of profitability and always maintain walk away power in any deal.Sometimes these deals will comeback to you but chances are they won't as the seller has an unrealistic view of his asset's worth, is no hurry to sell and someone with less experience than you will come along and pay him over market price at some point.Rick

Got plenty of assurances that credit was “excellent,” but never any forward movement.