Fellow investors that do work in that market can tell you who to go with and who to avoid, so definitely never just shake hands and start doing business with someone you know nothing about.  

For the most part my experience with evictions (which is what I believe you are asking regarding this question) is that magistrates want to give the tenants a fair shake but are reasonable.

As you mentioned a shake up is coming so I'd like to be prepared for when it happens. 

Put yourself in the room to hear the conversations, shake hands with investors doing deals, ask a lot of questions. 

The remainder mortgage on the house it’s 55K the value of the house on Zillow right now is between 400K and 500k"Now that leaves me shaking my head.

When they don’t, they walk without regret.The signaling you noticed (leg shaking, glasses, subtle cues) is also real.

Liquefaction (when saturated soil loses strength during shaking) is especially relevant in flood-prone areas because they're often built on bay fill or alluvial soils.

Right, @Lindsay Davis - agree with all points.So, I am concentrating now on what may shake up a market, move it off its current pricing.

Yeah that's exactly the blind spot - people jump into lending like it's just "I have money, you need money, let's shake hands."

It is complete garbage. it is one thing to use AI to clean up some verbiage but posts by someone with no experience explaining mezzanine debt vs pref equity I just sit there and shake my head.