@Lauren Cutchen Bought a house where the sellers child had scratched his name into the stainless steel fridge door.

When I bought my first property 30 years ago (aB&B) we had friends over for dinner one night.

that was not a method that Armando taught in the seminars I attended these were strickly how to find BRRR props and rehab them and then resell or refi and keep.. the Markets we worked were Vegas and Orlando and Frankly those investors who actually bought property doubled their money or more with the deals i funded for them and they bought on their own it was 2011 to 2013 which as we know was a prime buying time and had to hand it to Armando he picked two of the best Markets.. 

My wife and I just bought our first investment property in West Michigan.

I have had some very successful rentals that I bought in the financial crisis, and they were NOT kicking off 40% annualized returns.  

We bought about 3 years ago.It's going great.

Investors made offers to other investors to be bought out at 75 cents on the dollar (pretty normal process in trust deed lending - either stay in the deal until the end - or get out now at a discount.)

I bought a SFR and then shortly after a duplex.

For context, here's the home https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/943-34th-St-Oakland-CA-94...We bought it as our primary in 2014 for $590k and realized a nice run up in appreciation over the last decade, appraising most recently in 2022 for $1.2m. 

I read about a woman who bought a foreclosure for $50,000 cash in Florida, then she immediately found out it had $150,000 in liens.