They are loaded with debt, lack ambition and are just now starting to procure decent jobs.  

With a few exceptions, any costs associated with procuring an asset and bringing it into business use become part of the basis.

It is a massive system that we have procured and built over time, and I do believe both bases want to protect it.Liberals wish to do so via covering non-payment of rent with rental assistance; the way I interpret the language is voucher programs and non-eviction for 12 months -- e.g., if you can't pay, you get a voucher to cover, and you can't be evicted for 12 months.

Two of my closest friends have no college degrees and one does very well with a specialty position in a hospital's bio-med dept, the other is the VP of Global Procurement & Manufacturing for a major fire control manufacturer.Not bad for three guys without degrees.College will open doors no doubt, but that piece of paper will not keep you in.

If there's one thing the wholesaling industry will never be short on, it's ignorance.Many new wholesalers don't truly understand what it would mean if they lock up a contract and fail to procure a buyer. 

I am a newbie buy-and-hold investor, and in the process of procuring my first rental property, a duplex.

In the 2 states that I have done business(Texas and Nevada) it is permissible to change a releasing/termination fee as well as hold the tenant responsible for rent while procuring a replacement tenant

@Denise Evans as a buyer I start with the premise that if there was any net upside in rents the seller would have procured them already.

Contract administrator/ purchasing/procurement.... etc all help w/ skill set useful to investing.

Being that it was a friend, I wanted to be sure any deals I made he got his cut whether or not he was the procurring cause.