For my birthday this year, my wife found a 38 unit property for sale in a town we'd been investing in.

I was just given the book by J Scott on Recession proof real estate investing as a birthday gift. 

Originally posted by @Robert Ellis:Originally posted by @Remington Lyman:Originally posted by @Brandon Goldsmith:Columbus has some lovely vacation homes, never a reason to leave @John Hardy Alum Creek is the most underrated beach in the worldI laughed a little harder at this than I should have I rent a 16 person pontoon boat there every year for my birthday in May.

@Gregory Schwartz is a great dude, find contractors and learn which ones are investor friendly @Colton Cook here in CS, and find a mentor who can help you learn from experience and mistakes.If you graduate at 23, househack duplexes in your 20's, at the end of it you could have 14 units before your 30th birthday.

I am heading to Las Vegas tomorrow for a friend's birthday party there.

As a gift to you for our 8th BiggerPockets Birthday, we've killed off the influence system.I know several people who will be very happy about this, and extend an invitation to them to return to the site.

There must be some way to cross check it with their SSN or birthday.

Installed landscaping; fish pond with pump, fountain, trees, shrubs, flowers, retaining walls, stone patios, paved walkways, vegetable garden.

Things started to go down hill and they simply took off on the sixth month, leaving behind what ended up being 42 bags of garbage, rotting food in the fridge, cat litter pans full of...well, you can guess.I ended up "raking" up the oldest daughters room to clean it up and was glad I was wearing gloves since, as I got down to the last layer it consisted of used tampon containers simple tossed on the floor instead of in the garbage (sorry if this is too much information).They took the "important" stuff (all the plastic flowers) but left behind all the "unimportant" papers including bank statements and both previous leases (I learned they pulled the same trick on at least two other local landlords) and the new lease...so filing against them was easy since they kindly provided me with their new address where they could be served.They also left behind new clothes with tags on them and I tried a few of the blouses on; they fit and I made sure I was wearing one of them when we went to court and I won my judgement against them.Gail

Where did all the people go.....where is the flower power man?