When I get to be CZAR, I'll throw all the deadbeats in prison (on bread and water) and throw away the key!

Btw, if it turns out the gov't is subverting the Constitution, I'm all for prosecution, and throwing them in prison for the rest of their lives.

They are living in clean surroundings, getting religion appropriate food, allowed to practice their religion freely, supervised so that no fighting or co-prisoner cruelty is permitted.

Avoid lenders/investors whom notoriously put restrictions in their approvals.2.

If wholesaling were illegal here, the prison would be even fuller than it already is.

Too many reasons not to invest in those areas, cash flow is generally wonderful but several of these areas include tenant friendly laws, laws that generally make landlording difficult (i've heard Detroit is notorious for these) plus my biggest problem when I looked into Detroit is you cannot control what people do around you, several properties I looked at were on "ghost" streets and no one to be the only one to live there, another problem being alot of the houses are so run down they're realistically worthless, when the cost to put a roof on the house cost more then the house, most don't make needed repairs.

The policy makers would probably rival or exceed the criminal minds in any prison....well, I guess exceed, since they aren't there.

But maybe you can go to Federal Prison for it in Montana!

Since you want to rehab an investment unit, I don't see how you qualify for the 203k loan program.If your mortgage broker knows your intended use of the unit that you want to finance with a 203k loan, your broker appears to be enlisting you as a co-conspirator in mortgage fraud.The penalies are a heavy fine and/or prison.

At least in my market, things are very cyclical (or at least ever changing)...There will be periods of weeks or months where we find it difficult to find any properties that meet our criteria (this often happens during the summer and around the winter holidays) and then we'll see weeks or months where lots of great deals hit the market without much competition (beginning of the year and September/October are notoriously good)..We now try to buy as much as possible during the "good" times, and don't stress about the lack of inventory during the "bad" times, knowing that things will soon change.For reference, the past two months have been pretty good in my area -- we've purchased three properties and have a couple more we're currently negotiating.