I get the "1% rule" is a common guideline to follow with income-producing properties and the market may be tightening a little bit making it harder to find "1% deals", but there are  plenty out there.

A year went by without me collecting rent and me paying all of the mortgage, taxes and community fees until I had enough it was putting serious strain on my own family...

A year went by without me collecting rent and me paying all of the mortgage, taxes and community fees until I had enough it was putting serious strain on my own family...

But if the relationship is strained I personally would just walk away.

Regardless of that emotional stuff and trying to help where you can if missing a couple of rent payments is too financially straining, as someone else mentioned missing a mortgage payment, you are super under capitalized and need to be in a different investment vehicle.

The market has tightened up but, there are still a lot of great deals to be found.

I know our housing to be down around 10% for all homes.She says market is tightening up and retiring boomers will be looking in the future for less maintenance.She goes on to say check out the financials, the accounting for reserves and the last couple of months of the meetings minutes.

And great point if you have a spouse who doesn't support you in your ventures it can cause a strain on the relationship.

Something doesn't add up.There is NO WAY the police would knowingly let a sex offender live in the same place as children.Now there are some parts of the law I don't agree with like an 18 year that has a 17 year old girlfriend and they have sex.The parents get mad and file charges against the 18 year old.I think in certain circumstances people should not be classified as sex offenders and the laws need to be tightened.

In this new era of belt tightening these same entities are now working on tighter margins and are not willing to pay for title out of their own pocket only for you to decide that you don't want to go through with the deal.