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We are not opposed to going out of the area.I look forward to your input in the future.

If your only defense is a bad attitude, then I'd rather wait until your house goes to auction and buy it from the bank.Excuse me, but if you read your posts to me, you would see, I hope anyways, that you are accusing of me of lying, as opposed to the Mortgage and real Estate agent lying.

doing it by yourself is always much less optimized than being part of an Arm Chair partnership, whereas all elements of real estate are professionally managed for you as oppose to you doing it yourself. but what if you get the prefessional services and you making more?

You sound like you a no-nonsense, feet-solidly-on-the ground as opposed to the occassional "la-la, pie in the sky type, I want to get rich in RE but have no solid vision and poor credit to boot" newbie.

The journal allows me to refer back to see how things actually progressed as opposed to how I expected them to. 8)

When you want to grow a bit you can stick to SFR as opposed to multi-family properties.

I'm especially interested in hearing what things you do much differently today as opposed to a year or two ago.The areas I am especially interested in are Orange County.

Now in the case of the homeowner, it may not be large sums of money, but quality of life is huge and I do as much as possible to get them back on their feet, into a positive situation as opposed to a negative one.So I guess I don't have a solid answer to your question, because each deal is so different, and what is needed on each deal is very different.

Josh,I assume you mean a tenant-from-hell story as opposed to a landlord horror story (we all know landlords are perfect)!