She has since passed away, but her final months were better than they otherwise would have been, and her son's financial health certainly a crap ton better than it would have been (I caught him right before he was going to start missing payments, disqualifying him from any mortgage because his FICO was already shaky as it was).

We even had a quickbooks tutorial when we first started from one of the CPAs there which was extremely helpful. 

There is a guy named Phil Pustejovsky Im not saying buy anything but he gave a great tutorial.

The bad news is that no one is going to make that same killing again any time soon, and some folks are just going to be sitting on the fence growing old waiting for it.I'm also going to point out that nearly everyone who purchased at the "worst" time to purchase, in 2007, in the Bay Area, is 9 years later sitting on a crap ton of real estate equity/wealth.

The dog used the house as it's own personal toilet and crapped and urinated everywhere.

Personally I want lead-free on my rentals so I buy properties that are crap and need a lot of work but I know that going in.  

The unfortunate thing is, far too many unqualified and unknowledgeable people keep perpetuating this crap here and elsewhere on the internet. 

I heard that same crap back in 08 "rents will never go down" boy did they as people were scrambling to fill vacancies.

For example if your right units AC craps out this summer that means that you just ate up your whole 10% CapX and repair budget for the first 2(!)

Hopefully one will turn you something that closer resembles a real deal rather than the crap that is being peddled now by nearly all wholesalers in Houston.