I'm a new investor, and I've been doing the addicting legwork of analyzing and then physically seeing houses almost every weekend over the past month.I work in construction as my day job, I'm a Project Manager working exclusively in natural disaster rebuilding.

About me: I am a newbie buy and hold investor in Northern Virginia, long time lurker, and recent poster to the forum...getting a little addicted to it in the past month :) My market is extremely competitive - Northern VA and Montgomery County, MD - so I am aware finding an off-market property that cash flows after some renovations is not going to be easy... but it feels like it is impossible.

Drugs- What happens if one of you becomes an addict.

be careful...this stuff gets addicting!  

Lock you car though, despite the gentrification there's still a lot of heroin addicts.  

I own sober living homes for men looking to recovery from substance abuse addictions.  

He explained to me he was addicted to meth 9 years ago and has been clean since '09. 

Since I found BP about 7 months ago, I have become a fervent listener of its podcasts, addict to read the forum, and also I have assisted to several local REI meetings, to be precise, the Diversified Real Estate Group (DIG), but NOT ACTION!.

It is not impossible, but you have to work at it like a crack addict.

Reservations are notorious for high unemployment rate and addiction problems.