He said it was impossible for the other players to catch up to him because they simply did not have enough time.

I found great homes and must have put an offer in on 5 houses at least but there are heavy players out here who purchase all cash, which pushes the investors trying to use leverage to the side.

The calculators are giving me my compounded rate of return (i.e. as if I'd put my 61k in a CD...what return would I have needed to give me 

Being a friend, we know his investing habits and knew he would likely just put it in a CD at 1% or so.

Normally the struggle is between B and C.  D

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There's nothing inherently wrong with lower income renters (of course, they're people too), but there is often a lot more hassle that comes along with C/D tier properties.

That's a C/D area.

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@Tom Gimer  good ole boy wink wink has gone away in Oregon as well... not that the Doj per say did anything just too many players chasing the same deals.the day I decided to take our 10 million out of the foreclose bizz and turn it into HML was this:opening bid 80k  home worth 170k  rehab 30k  32 qualifiers with opening bid checks thats 2.4 million in cashiers checks chasing one deal that ultimately sold with maybe a 10k margin...