Grit your teeth and stick to your screening.  

Salem is my old stomping ground and where I cut my teeth in Real Estate, so I'm very familiar with the area and I know a lot of people.

These people are basically protected under new federal laws with teeth, designed especially for the "help you solve your foreclosure problem".

Stick with semi-gloss or eggshell on the walls and I go with an enamel on cabinets.  

@Brie Schmidt  It has been like pulling teeth to get full reports (in fact I still haven't received a full report yet).

It will allow you to cut your teeth on the rental market and give you some awesome experience with groups of tenants... and their associated issues.Having cash is great.  

This has been a year for cutting my teeth, closed my first wholesale flip and bought my first rental.My plan for the rest of the year is to purchase 2 more homes by ramping marketing efforts to find deals.

I was just cutting my teeth on the real estate game then, and found it after searching for answers to an investment question.

However, Dodd-Frank is under the gun with changes (pulling teeth) from the Act under the proposed government funding Bill.The attack seems to be where you'd expect it to be, provisions were written by CITIGROUP  pulling the teeth on allowing the 4 big banks (that have 92% of the business at risk) dealing in securities allowing depository coverage, meaning the tax payer will be back on the hook as they were before the DF Act.

But then I get frantic emails about how their new 8 week old puppy is viciously biting them (LOL), after they sign a contract stating puppies mouth and have needle sharp teeth.