Or, he is getting divorced and needs cash.Maybe he is tired of tenants.Maybe he is ill and will not live much longer.Maybe he is buying Trump Tower or some other trophy property so needs a bit of cash.There are so many reasons why a seller puts a property on the market.

I don't personally know anyone successfully investing and I was tired of the negative advice from folks who exactly like you said "don't have the experience to tell me if it would work or not!"

I have been kicking the tires for way too long.

Bank REO and tired landlords. 

I was tired of paying rent for my accounting practice and I found a vacant 4-office building with a huge parking lot (parking is a challenge in my town).

Love the appreciation, but kind of tired of the neighborhood.  

I'm tired of every time I take a mortgage out, my credit report gets pinged. 

In the process of all this, we are getting tired of the oddly worded, sorta sketchy addendums they keep sending to us.

Reinvest the profits from these flips until your seed money is tripled....then,...3 - Take the profits from continued flipping to buy cash flow properties.Repeat steps #2 and 3 until tired of making money.Important points:A - There is a special type of investment you need to do in Step #1 in order to accomplish what I wrote, and control risk.B - In step #2, I said flip the cash.

I got tired of typing the same thing over and so I wrote a blog post on the topic of SEC 8 - Your Perceptions VS My Realities  just click on my name to see my profile then scroll to the bottom right to find it