Numbers can be massaged and inflated - you need to know what ingredients went into the recipe to know whether or not you want to eat it.Anyway, it looks like a lot of the finer points have already been made here, just thought I'd throw my two TK cents into the fray.All the best to you all, investors, providers, and skeptics alike!

Just getting started, I would recommend a sort of immersion therapy where you're surrounded by investors, Realtors and lenders that can guide you along that aren't selling anything.Here's a good example of what I'm talking about. 

Consider it a desensitization therapy. 

I've been operating my business from Europe for a few years because my son has been getting intensive therapy here for some injuries he sustained at birth.  

My calls it therapy. 

Trust the #'s don't massage the #sDo you put your own offers on the HUD properties or are you using another Broker?

I would like to jump into it full time after I complete this physical therapy, or it might even be possible to do while I'm finishing physical therapy if theres not a great deal of heavy lifting.I currently live in western Kentucky in the Madisonville area.  

I was spending $8000 a month living in LA (mostly paid by BF) and then cut it down to 4500 moving to Dallas and then I really cut back on a lot of things: cable, downgrading to metro cell phone service from sprint, cut my Massage Envy membership that was $60/mo, getting.

He/She will go though all the hoops to get a tenant occupying they new building for the amount they need to fulfill their obligation (1st month free, 3 month free, no charge for pets, Give you a foot massage, whatever) Now guess what happen next door in the 5-10 years old apartment building, they now feel they can raise their rent too.

It is fairly common for an existing tenant to bring in a service (ES or Therapy) animal during their tenancy.