Where is consumer's right here?

This may help you look at a property and potentially submit an offer before anyone else (general public) will see it. ( i purchased my last property 2 weeks ago in this manner).never hesitate to let anyone know you buy properties (Friends, co-workers etc.)...you just never know if a friend of a friend of a friend needs out of their situation.Try driving (Time consuming) around in the neighborhoods you might be interested in.

What Karen Mikolainis said - if you put it all down into a spreadsheet, I think you may find that renting where you NEED to live and investing where you WANT to may make the best sense - and will more than cover up the need to pay for the services of a good property manager and others - if you follow the deals to where the money is.Also, being remote will free you from being emotionally and time-wise consumed in management of your property/ies.I second that.

It is a VERY time consuming process and next time around, I will definetly just purchase a list but for thr first go at it, I wanted to try on my own just to understand how it's done. 

The challenges are offering seller financing to consumers in the post Safe Act environment.

However, I believe that used properly it can be used for good. for example reale estate leverage. used unproperly ( example - credit cards for consumer goods) can be a bad thing. now, when you use a specific scenario as you did Tom Goans, you can make a point. answer me this. you -you pay cash for a 100k house and rent it for 1k a month. you have no cash left. you owe no money on the house so you can lower rent to $850 if needed.me - put down 20k and borrow 80k for the house, but i have 80k in reserves.

If you're a landlord and your tenants suddenly can't afford your rental rates because their consumer debt has gotten more expensive, you're affected.

My wife and I are looking to start our real estate investing business and are trying to consume as much info as possible to hopefully avoid a few mistakes down the road!

However, sounds like the FIL could manage and GC the rehab on the flips, such that it wouldn't be so time consuming for you.

That single expense will consume for 53% of my rents for the year on that property.