Here's a quick piece of advice, don't spam the hell out of Craigslist.

It is always better to hire GC with insurance and pay a little more than take the gamble because you might have a pro tenant who might step on a nail in a piece of wood the GC laid down and the GC has no insurance guess who they will go after.

The article shows who they are and how they operate locally.Patrick,Here "was" my take on the situation earlier in the year when I heard hedge funds and private equities buying foreclosures.The hedge funds and private equities are gambling with OPM.

With your house paid off , you can sleep well at night , I dont gamble with my primary , if everything goes south , I still have a roof for the family .

Don't gamble with the money you can't afford to lose

Will you tend to be super picky with tenants, or be willing to take the first gamble that meets your qualifications (since they are all truly gambles anyway)?

If you want to gamble with your money, go to Las Vegas.

There is a difference between investing and gambling/speculating.

Essentially gambling that the value of your leveraged assets is going to increase over time.  

It thinks I was spamming whilst in fact I was asking for permission to reprint articles and also trying to connect with people in my area.The system says I should contact an administrator if I think that I have been blocked in error, but I cannot find a way to contact anyone, especially seeing that I am blocked from messaging.Could somebody please help me?