Quote from @Brandon Robertson: I purchased a tax certificate from Alabama a few years ago and I now have the tax deed dated a month ago.

Originally the program was developed for Facebook and Google, to power their data centers there, but TVA has opened it up to the 7-state service area.

So if I do a good analysis of the property (including all the costs) and the property generates monthly CF with a DSCR above 1.1, I would be removing a big risk because the numbers add up.

If you cash flow $1K per month for 36 months, and then sell with the ability to pull back your original investment, would you consider that a win?

This is a good question.I found that meetups are kind of like you described not much really happens there and for sure REIAs and their monthly meeting kind of the same people talking about the same thing then bring in ( at least what i have seen with the PDX reia) folks that are presenting on things that worked decades ago.. and want to sell their stuff for a few grand.For me personally the best networking hands down was SF Bay Area events  San Jose Reiaand LA  FIBI events.folks in those markets are very real estate centric and generally more experienced and in San Jose so many tech folks that have done really really well.. maybe not in RE but have done great in TECH and have quite a bit of bandwidth for investments..

They now own 14 more properties than they did before we started working together just 8 months ago.

We bought a house 9 months after our first offer once:)

They needed to sell after just 6 months of owning.

Because that property didn't quite fit my portfolio profile, I re-sold it 5 months later for $375,000. 

Do you use a “book” for information or an online service ?