I was able to get her daughter's number.The daughter was suppose to be making the payments but was snorting white stuff up her nose with the money instead.To make a long story shorter...I was able to buy that house for $25,000 and that included all the things in the house including a baby grand piano, a car with 40k miles, lots of great stuffI kept the things I liked, then had an estate sale to sell the rest.I cost $20,000 for the rehab but this one sold for a nice profit.

It can get frustrating after you have gone through painstaking lengths to get a unit rent ready to have a tenant turn up their nose and tell you all the things they hate about your property.

I have been acquiring a lot of rentals and If it came down to it, I don't mind selling my primary to wipe that HELOC clean, pull out my remaining equity, and start with a clean slate (assuming house prices in my area don't take a nose dive).I really don't plan on selling my rentals any time soon, like I would my house.

Like taking on anything new, I think you have to put your nose to the grindstone, be dogged, absorb as much as you can, and hopefully make only minor mistakes.  

@Jason Nunemaker Long time no see.

I was paying $700 in KC.And if you live in a flood zone, prepare to pay through the nose for flood insurance.

I know the concept in my head, but something about the push up so the nose goes down thing is really disturbing to me.

Had I already completed the real estate sales person courses, I would have negotiated with that guy instead of listening to my realtor who just wrinkled his nose.

Here in Portland you can't pick your nose without a permit!!!!!!  

Are you saying that you have to pour a concrete basement floor (because it is either dirt or the existing concrete is fracturing)?