Rent payments do not have to go towards the ultimate purchase price.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

It is the ultimate in leveraging the banks money.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

A good way to begin is to read the Bigger Pockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing as Josh and Brandon did a great job with it.We'd love to see you be an active member of the BP community so be sure to set up Keywords Alerts for your local area such as "Dallas" or "Fort Worth" if you're looking to find potential opportunities for investing or other members in your area.

Explore BP below.Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthereCheck out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice.

Ultimately, they are not legally defendable.

:-DI know that I know my market better than anyone on BP, and that ultimately we will choose what we think is best and go with it, but there is a LOT of experience here.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

Ultimately you need to secure either control of the properties or the sincere cooperation of the owners.You never know until you ask ...