A special thanks to:Josh Dorkin and Brandon Turner for the insightful and entertaining podcasts;Ali Boone for sparking my interest in Turn Key investing;Bill Gulley for sharing your wealth of experience through your many posts on mortgage notes.My day job is in Medical Sales, Major Accounts Management, but my dream job is to be a full time real estate investor like many of you.

We've ivy league, medical, HBCU, engineering, sports etc higher education right in our town.

I had to buy a lot of books going through college and they cost more in grad school, glad I didn't have to buy medical text books!

I work in the medical field as well, here in the San Fernando Valley.

Through innovation, new products, supermarkets, transportation systems, housing, medical breakthroughs, hospitals, etc., they enrich our lives, give us jobs and food and many services we take for granted.

He and his wife bought a duplex and lived in one side and rented the other when he got out of medical school.

.- You might find temporary medical residents or people in the area for a shorter time a good match.

The sale of the home is considered to be for health reasons if the taxpayer's primary reason for selling the home is to obtain medical attention (diagnosis, cure, mitigation, or treatment), or to obtain medical or personal care for a qualified individual suffering from a disease, illness, or injury.Unforeseen circumstances may include: an involuntary conversion (destruction or condemnation of home), unemployment, the inability to pay basic living expenses, or a change in living arrangement such as a divorce or legal separation or multiple births resulting from the same pregnancy, and other reasons to the extent provided in regulationsThe taxpayer's exclusion would have been disallowed because of the "more than one home sold during a 2-year period" rule, except that the taxpayer sold the home due to and of the three reasons listed above.The taxpayer otherwise qualifies for the sale of home exclusion, but there was a period of nonqualified use during which the home was not used as a principal residence (effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2008).Example: John bought his first home in 2003.

The only 100% conventional loan I know of is VA and some loans made to medical doctors.....or to those who can show they don't need a loan.

What causes people to sell and be motivated is what you look for, or what makes them buy.Foreclosures, loss of job or a promotion, bankruptcies, death, people move into nursing homes, have medical issues, get married, have more kids, kids take off to college, retirement, etc.