Hi Malcolm, With your strategy of holding multi-family properties or flipping, the key is running the numbers carefully to match your goals.

@Nick Henry this also comes down to how much time you have available and how much effort you are able to put into purchasing a home or building and doing renovations and then finding quality residents to live and take care of your asset.

We care about our investors' success, but it's ultimately up to each investor to take action to accomplish their goals however they do it!

Now the situation has occurred that we need to rent the house out in order to help pay for his long term care expenses. 

@Mike Burkett @Chris C.Hi,I should have read the post more carefully.

I don't care if they're free, I don't need that!"

I always viewed it as "who cares how much money I put down", I plan to pay them all of before I retire as part of my ultimate strategy anyways. 

So whenever the buyer wants to refinance or sell the property my lien comes up aswell and that's when I'm taken care of? 

If you want to be taken seriously I'd start saving for your first investment opportunity, maybe pick up OT or a second job to show you have skin in the game.

The 15-20 year run people had is gone, so be VERY careful with listening to some of these "real estate gurus." 7.