All comments regarding this manner will gladly be appreciated.

It appears to me that the convergence of several scenarios has caused the foreclosure rate to jump way up.First is the sustained period of low interest rates that allowed people to purchase homes that would normally be above their means.

And, if you balk at the $1,200 per year you pay for property insurance, you'd pay maybe $1,000 per year in time, state filing fees, accounting, and corporate diligence to have and sustain a legal LLC.

most of the people end up being greedy and over pricing their house because they think its worth more, or they lack the work ethic to finish the flip in a timely manner, and no one on that show can make a realistic budget apparently.

There is no real dependency between gross rent and expenses; it is just that the numbers seem to correlate in that manner.

My units are not cheap, I only acquire nice buildings with these intangle qualities because I know that, in the long-term, this is sustainable.

At some point the sprawl will be contained either through boundaries like Indian reservations (to the south of Phx) or simply too great of a distance from jobs to make people's commutes worthwhile -- which will jack up prices in places where people have already built, which means even more appreciation for home values.The big negative here is that these are cities in the desert, and if drought keeps going (a real possibility), then there might not be the natural resources there much longer that would sustain the population, which of course would mean people selling and moving out and losing a lot on their real estate investments.

Keeping good residents by performing maintenance in a timely manner is one of the reasons many renters wish to deal with a PM firm rather than an individual landlord.

Not that I don't still take financial risks, but proportionally to the size of my business none of them are going to jeopardize my business' ability to grow and sustain itself.For some people, real estate investing may be the only chance they have to get ahead.

Dealing with maintenance issues in a timely manner is always important.