Because real estate always goes up and the maintenance fairy takes care of all repairs free of charge.Seems like a recipe for disaster. 

Good cash flow and equity upon completion.

Feel free to bring any question you have or ideas for topics you’d like to hear about, whether for novices or advanced investors.

Structuring a joint venture (JV) or equity partnership can make the deal appealing by offering a share of cash flow and appreciation. 

Tell him you are sorry the unit doesn't work for him and that you'll let him out of the lease penalty free immediately. 

Still, I think you'd find it difficult to find one that would be a good long-term investment unless you had another ~20-30 years to go, it's at least cash neutral, and you don't plan to hold it too long (to avoid too much investment loss and before you get to the point where it's unsellable because of too few years left); that's another way of saying that maybe it suits your cash needs in the near-term or is at least less of a pill to swallow than other options until you find something that's more of a sensible long-term play

So you use hard money or cash, fix it, resell it...and try to resale fast. 

Offer to do his inspections for free in exchange for some education on how to find, analyze, and fund deals.

The list are getting the information, and whether I can get it for free.

Any recommendations for free tools to do market research?