Put yourself in the sellers shoes for a moment though, if you were the seller (I know this is a REO, but I have done many REO deals and believe me, the notion that they just want to "get it off their books"  has not been my recent experience, especially recently), if someone came to you with an offer for $180K when you were asking $300K, would you not think: "wow I could prob drop my price on the mls to $250K and see what happens." 

The notion that every dollar you of your net worth must be earning you at least 10% (or else you are leaving money on the table) is an aggressive strategy.

Ifunding does have a large notional dollar amount invested in various deals.Ian,As an aside, your website is a great resource.

To me, it sounds like you should easily make your goal of semi-retirement, even earlier than your notional plan.

I'd much prefer a tenant who puts forth requests and includes me in the decision making process, rather than proceeding to do something themselves with the notion that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. :-)

That adds to the notion what many say that REOs are not necessarily good deals.

I have to disagree with the notion that property taxes don't play a role when someone is deciding on buying a home.

When part of the goal is just how many properties can I accrue the bigger picture gets missed.Being a millennial myself, I think the attitude look at me and how much I've done by "fill in the blank age and time" is a dangerous notion.

Hi, all-- Before my fiancé, @Raymond Northcutt, and I had the notion to get into real estate, we were both renting.

I obviously don't endorse the tenant's conduct, but your notion of professional responsibility to landlords everywhere is a bit of an oversell for me.