Instead, squandered it on cars and "showy" crap...Cheers to successful real estate investing!

When I bought my first house in my early twenties 10 plus years ago, I got caught up in the "i got to get started right away investing" mentality and bought a piece of crap property.  

I find there is a lot of crap involved in probate.  

Not all but a lot of people in those areas will tear the crap out of a place.  

I have a full time job that I'll never quit because I believe in it...it's a public service job, but It doesn't pay worth a crap right now( about 42k/ year).

I know that many investors consider appreciation a crap shoot and disregard it completely. 

I've never used BP marketplace so I don't know, but most of my deals I've discussed here have been crapped on by folks who think they suck. 

Wouldn't get too disheartened, there are a lot of crap lawyers out there.We've run into a few here, professional realty lawyers who are just useless.

Crap for 1 to 15k per house if you have to just abandon one because it did not work no biggee.. you have lost next to nothing monetarily. keep the ones that work throw away the garbage let them go for tax's.If your sitting in CA or AU or GB  or other foreign countries and you think these cheap homes are going to make you rich.. then your just perpetuating the greater fool theory in my mind... and the end of the day simple logic has to dictate.. if houses on the open market were any investor  experienced or not can purchase them for 1 to 5k  well then there is a reason.. and there is a reason that in LA or SF or PDX or SEA  or New York or Boston or other prime markets that values are where they are at.. supply demand and ability to pay for the asset.Detroit bottom line just needs to retrench.. if its only 700k pop now and declining and there were housing stock for double that.. it does not take a genius to understand there is a gross over supply and the better owners or tenants are not going to live in the roughest and most dangerous areas of the city they will flee to safer more stable environs because there are massive amounts of homes that can be bought in nice areas for 100k and under.

All that village code crap is what put you in the hole.