When you've found a deal, you simply stroke a check off your line.

I am still not walking, from a brain annurism and a stroke I had a little over 6 years ago, are not walking yet but I am trying and making slow recovery.  

Never make a deal work but adding a large down stroke.

If you are talking debt service then you would only be breaking even until about 30% down, and then you're looking at 2% returns.Making plenty of assumptions here, so you'd have to run your own specific numbers to truly know, but in broad strokes this investment ranges from "meh" to "might as well invest in a CD".

To me it shows no morals or ethics whatsoever.. to even think this is OK.. just gets me.Like you I built a substantial sub too portfolio over the years.. but I also had more than one called.. and we stroked 100 to 300k checks for them.. there was a group here in PDX I think they got this from rich dad or another guru that came through town they did about 30 of these long term sandwich deals. and one by one the buyers flaked.. sub prime borrowers no matter where they are what they are .. are a big default risk.by the time they got to me  14 of the 30 were not paying.. and of course in our area mortgages are in the 1000 and above range.. and they are making their 200 a month delta.. but when you have 14,000 a month negative.. hostile owners of homes that know it takes a year to boot them.. and the folks you bought the house from are screaming.. ( many of these folks the credit was fine )  it was a cluster of epic proportions.. calls to AG to DA  come to Salem for a hearing..

When I had a brain aneurism and a stroke when I was 54 I never thought that would happen or how to deal with my recovery.  

hello my name is jerry and I'm a alcoholic o shoot wrong meeting, hold on I don't even drink  well I'm a newbie from ohio with no knowledge of real estate learning. never even had a house yet and of course very little money working as a handy man with my landlord learning from him every now and then my mentor wile learning and most likely even after I do break out into to this wide ranged field of real estate im trying find exactly what area I want to get into (whole sale ,flip fix and so on) , my main thing is law a splinter in the hind side. soon going to one of the bp rei a meeting not shure when I can make it ( a stroke of bad luck) but I am rely driven toward real estate I have been interested all my life watching all the gurus make all that money (yea right, going to jail) but didn't want to pay all that cash to a scammer . then I found this new sight called bigger pockets looks good cost nothing so here I am learning as much as I can holding off on buying anything till I know more. well this is my little playfull intro. not to upset anyone just a little diffrent

With that noted, there are South and West side neighborhoods that are doing extremely well, but we're talking in broad strokes.

Like @Perry Ivy, I could go to any lot around and buy a new car by stroking a check.  

@Michael Clippinger @Chris Strokes