The house was off the market for 2 months because of this, and I'd like to get that check, but not if I'll have to pay a lawyer $5k to get it back.

You can make money in rentals or lose you rear depending on the cycle of real estate (going up or down), ever increasing taxes (occurring strongly in Houston metro market), how deep of a discount you bought at, the quality of your tenant, the quality of your management (whether personal or professional), good or bad luck with vacancy and major repairs, getting flooded even when not in a flood zone, the neighborhood improving or depressing due to too many renters and/or crime, etc.I can tell you professionals and non-professionals alike will be more than happy to guide you into a "deal" whether it is in your best interest or not. 

I guess my ask is a way to make it so that all of the "My Discussion" topics automatically become "Followed Discussions" so that I can see the alerts that pop up on Followed or so that I get email notifications.Right now if I comment on something and it only goes to the "My Discussions" and someone responds, I don't get an email notification.

For example: I just now got a notification that someone mentioned my name, but there's no way to get directly to the post.

Some banks will want to see 2 yrs of passive rental income on tax returns to count it, some do not.  

good afternoon, I have a question, I received a pre-foreclosure notification from beggerpockets and that property is 5 minutes from my house, what could be my approach to this opportunity?

If you aren't, what are some of your reasons why you're not?

Often the interface it has is very limited in what you can do and the notifications you can get.Perhaps google home/next can be leveraged but for now it is limited.

@Steven Bommarito welcome to the site.I am not familiar with your area but you can set up keyword alerts so that anytime St Louis is being talked about on the site you will be sent a notification.

Either you have ALL of the cash at YOUR discretion to use or you do not.