Hoping to hear good/bad experiences of buying, holding, *and successfully selling* rental investment properties with Invest 5S (https://investwith.invest5s.com/).  

I keep thinking about tools that can help me reduce risk by catching errors or red flags in seller disclosures and inspection docs, but that's likely because I've had a bad experiences with both.A simple and obvious example is a seller checking "No" for pests section, such as Scorpions and Snakes in Arizona when the property is in the desert, so obviously, there will be snakes and scorpions. 

The last thing you want to do is have a rental go bad and then lose your primary residence due to a deficiency judgment because of a bad rental property.

@Evan Price, it doesn't sound like you had a bad experience here.

For sale by owner and seller finance is completely different. buyer/tenants don’t always have bad credit.

The foundation is so bad the house has shifted and I’m going to be spending nearly 40-50k to get this remediated.

It is typical for them to be bad.

I see credit cards and car loans as , but I do not see mortgages being paid down by the tenants as debt as bad debt.Because of the 4 reasons that are listed above I was very skeptical and even today I have not went through his whole program.

I currently have 2 rentals in the Atlanta area, and for the past 2 years, both have been Section 8 rentals, and I have to say that the experience has not been as bad as the horrors stories I heard.

Bad debt on their books.etc. it does happen.the fact is that there is 1.4 trillion dollars of maturing commercial.loan debt coming due in the next 3 years.i would recommend that you do what's best for you, not your lender..Best regards