Try buying and selling unwanted rural vacant land west of the Mississippi.We double and tipple our money on cash sales or throw off a 50% annual return for more than 10 years.

I want to make offers on new and/or unwanted homes on the MLS.

I would be unpleasantly surprised if there wasn't $200k in equity there for a refi, or if I flip it, $160,000 after sale costs.

@Gerald HarrisThanks for the mention and I love your website and approach to buying unwanted rural vacant land.

Also, if you plan on living in one of the units, make sure to be real diligent about who you rent out the other unit to, there's no one to blame but yourself if you live next to some unpleasant people.

(cover yourself)Yes, you may use the standard Realtors agreement but make sure that you use an addendum with all the language needed to "cancel out" any of the unwanted language that is pre-printed in the Realtor's contract.

It is in a very good location (near the beach) but it is a great deal of trouble.The electrical system is working but very old, and underpowered.The water supply is a mix of all kinds of improvisations, but the basis is galvanized pipe, which of course is a ***** to work on.The drainage is also a mix of old and new, but whenever I work on some of the old stuff I usually get unpleasant surprises.For the roof, a contractor told me he could not give me a fair estimate to replace it because he did not know what 'surprises' he might find when he took the roof off, since the house was so old.For the siding and windows, I've been hustling around repairing moisture leaks for years, and I seem to be catching up on them.For the framing, who knows?

Also take excellent before and after photos. on my first deal one of the students created unwanted issues with neighbors, and after I forwarded those complaints to the tenants, that tenant moved on and was replaced with a different  friend of theirs along with a rent increase. ;)

A few blog posts about my experience (I'm certain yours won't be this bad):https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8160/52857-my-... https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8160/54150-evi...https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8160/64116-evi...First step, you have to have a legal lease to take legal action on removing an unwanted tenant. 

In many cases, someone had a specific personal question or wanted to trade emails, but not publically or requested a file to be sent to them and now we have to request to become collegues, wait for the acceptance and then PM.I understand your intention is to protect BP members from receiving unwanted PM messages and or spam via PM, but in my humble opinion, if that was happening (not sure it was), having the ability to "warn" the unsolicited PM'er or send a complaint to a moderator should suffice and prevent spamming, etc.Hope you go back to the prior as it was a great resource to many of us.I'm sure if a poll was taken, the vast majority would want the ability to send a PM to another from the threads only, not necessarily from a profile page.