I currently work as a Physician Assistant in an orthopedic surgery practice in Grants Pass, Oregon.I am interested in buy-and-hold rentals.

I certainly agree that this isn't brain surgery, but you do need to understand the basics of the business (I think that's what Jeff and I were both saying).What I meant is that no-one cares if you have a NR education or a Carleton Sheets education or a BiggerPockets education or a Harvard education when you run your own business.

This ain't freakin' brain surgery!

I just had a freakish weekend showing a house--the first applicant was a very attractive woman who worked for a cosmetic Surgery clinic -- she had obviously taken advantage of the employee discount--she had a very nice look and way about her- & her children were nice too--she was evasive about her credit -she said it wasn't "too good"----upon getting the screening back,the records showed she had undisclosed bankruptcy, recent eviction--she said that was her sister's eviction-- it was" just in her name", the LL name she gave me was not the property owner listed on the county records--"she said that was because of a divorce and he was hiding from his wife", the child support financial records to support her income I asked her to provide "couldn't be faxed because something was wrong with the fax machine at the clinic", and she had 30 recent collections as well as 4 new court judgements-- these were" just loans and things, so how does that affect me renting your house?"

After my surgery in the fall I started reading here, then joined and started posting.

I am a Nurse Anesthetist by trade and that consists of putting people to sleep for surgery.

By the time she was 18 she had endured two separate 3-year stints with braces, multiple oral surgeries and implant surgery.

Last year my mother had an aneurism that after brain surgery left her unable to return home.

Unfortunately I heard from him recently and he had to have surgery and is not feeling too good and so is not looking for real estate anytime soon.

Bill,Would you get lasik surgery without reading up on it?