It might be enlightening.

I'm not seeing how anyone can cash flow $500 to $1000 a month buying at current prices and interest rates - if this happening, someone enlighten me :-) The key word being current prices not prices from 5 to 20 years ago. 

Anyone can enlighten me?

Thanks for sharing your experience in great detail; it was quite enlightening. 

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But allow me to enlighten you if you don't mind :)Imagine a truck load of blue balls. 97% of these blue balls are completely blue, and 3% of these blue balls have a red dot.Follow me so far?

Can someone enlighten me on how to use landlord tenant court files.

Thanks to everyone on this forum for enlightening this "never had a cup of coffee in my life" lady.

Yes, @Brandon Hall, why don't you enlighten us all with some examples of ways to "drastically offset W-2 income" with rentals??

If you feel so strongly about a home that you are willing to make irrational decisions like that, please read some of these forums about "rookie mistakes" and enlighten yourself on the term due diligence.