If your mentality is such you can't stomach the possibility of a violation and getting caught, don't do it.  

If you have a lot of exposure on investments on think you have to figure out what you can stomach in a catastrophe.In our mobile home parks here, we primarily try not to own homes but have opted out of flood when given the choice.  

The hedge funds get high ROI properties for their portfolio, they also rehab properties restoring neighborhoods and property values, and the small investors and contract rehabbers get to finish the job by buying and fixing the remainder of the properties and make some good money.The final piece may be the investor that takes the worst of the worst and working with local municipalities to get tif (tax increment financing) money razes the rest and repurposes the land for new housing, multi-family low income housing or commercial use, which may become a lucrative niche market in the next few years if you have the stomach and expertise to work with local city planners.

The instructions were to carve the giant as if it had died in great pain, and the final result was an eerie figure, slightly twisted in apparent agony, with his right hand clutching his stomach.

It doesn't make sense for an investor to stomach all of the debt on the property if they aren't buying equity at a discount for these properties so they instead act as a "principal/broker" by wholesaling the property to a new buyer.

people and they can afford to stomach some negative cash flow month to month to "bet" on those "speculatively."

But it seems thats not what you would like to do because you haven't done that, so just follow your instinct and keep your head down.As much as Robert Kiyosaki makes my stomach turn (personality wise) he does have a pretty good grip on the "normal person" aka non REI's in the way he talks about his so called poor dad.

@Adrian Brownif you really want to get off to a quick start, you should start building relationships by making the rounds at as many REI MeetUps and investment club meetings as you can stomach.

You're likely already losing $2K....how much more loss can you stomach? 

I just cant stomach allowing someone to live in such conditions on my dime.