From what I'm seeing there's some decent deals out there, but with us already having the obligations from our 1st office building, should we stick our neck out even more to help balance the risk?

Here's one that looks like its in your neck of the woods:http://www.meetup.com/Kern-Real-Estate-Investors-Network/

James Park thanks doe reminding me of my spelling mistake with loose vs. lose :) jk.. but seriously, I may contradict myself on the subject multiple times, but overall I think it is better to find a good tenant than fill the place.In my neck of the woods, it is 60+ days and 470 dollars to evict a tenant.. so that is what I base my leniency on.

Welcome Joseph McKnight how are things in the real estate world in your neck of the woods?

Flipping is tough in my neck of the woods, so I'm going to transition out of that and into wholesaling for buy-and-hold guys instead.

Around here, there are red necks with all kinds of rifles and shotguns on a gun rack in the back window of thier pickup!

I'm shaking my head so much my neck hurts :)BTW Ben - you should be able to get the seller to cut the utilities on so you can have a full inspection before purchasing.

It would be a huge pain in the neck for them, and if they planned on using it as their primary residence, then according to the the Tenants in Foreclosure Act the lease becomes invalid and they just give a 90-day notice instead.

And in my neck of the woods there is decent stability for fix and flip investing in some specialty markets.

Hello @Michael Garcia ,I see you are not too far from my neck of the woods.