When they don't pay for two or three months and then y ou go to court...another few months....4 to 6 months of no rent....how does that sound....pure misery for sure!

I will say that BP is pure GOLD in this regard.

Eventually most people run out of their own money for pure cash flow plays.

So he looks at it and tells me it’s not my alternator but my battery and he’s got this super awesome battery he can sell me for 300 bucks.  

If you believe you will need cash soon enough, then you want to put as little as possible, so that you can do more purchases to start building up your portfolio.If you believe you won't need the cash for the near future ... then put down 20% and avoid extra expenses ... such as PMI ... etc.My very first rentals, I bought them in class A, pure appreciation play, put 20% down.

If it's purely/mainly from extra money you've put into it, then that hardly counts, right?

Drug dealing 4 times , assault and battery 2 times , domestic violence 4 times , IRS lien over 10K ,  failure to pay child support 10 times , and only 1 Failure to pay rent .  

@Kenny Lee  this is all pure speculation of course since we are not on the front lines.but I have sold many a house on contract and the buyer still called his payment rent.. and called me to fix things after he moved in..

I mean I had not heard about it as a viable market and I have a pretty good idea of most of the viable markets in the country.. so right there I am thinking wow.then I had done a ton of deals in the deep south and the same homes that were worth 20 to 50k in Memphis were selling for 200k in Charleston same house same condition.. and none cash flowed.. so I knew right there that these were basically all being sold to owner occs and that's where the real money is made in the flipping business unless your going to be a high volume turn key company.So then I am following Boeing pretty strongly being a private pilot.. and I understood they had battery problems with the 787 but they got those worked out..

No issue at all with just buying a multi (or any property) as purely an investment.Perhaps you're concerned with down payments.