:)That works for me, I'm a mortgage processor today, tomorrow I'll be an investigator, but only in the morning, later I'll be on call to render first aid to swimmers at the lake as an emergency technician.

They asked us who we recommended in the area for PM and we did a little investigating and sadly couldn't recommend any of them as we wouldn't use any of them ourselves.

I tried to put together a spreadsheet for some combos on the market now and I think your'e right : people seems to count on the appreciation but well, it works until the bubble burst and then it's hell...I will continue to investigate investing in France or waiting for the bubble to burst and mabye act...

When I investigated I discovered that if he didn't evict, my lease would be whatever the tenants told me it was!

You're investigating for sloppy crap rehab work vs. the right way.

@Troy Fisher Hi Troy....thanks much for the recommendations on cities to investigate.

I was told that there are crucial elements of investigating a property before even attempting to buy it.

Also, from my investigation, it seems that I might not be eligible since I do not have a 'business'.

I just opted out of a REO deal since the bank would not provide access to the crawl space under the home to investigate and estimate the cost to stabilize the settling that was obvious from inside the home.

Personally I would investigate various passive investments and invest only a small percentage in any one project or investment thus diversifying yourself.