@Sean Tagge  exactly its a 50/50 crap shoot... .with that asset class in the bigger mid western rental cities.. 

They need to get their crap together. 

Thinking back I can hardly believe all the crap I had to overcome to get where I am now.This is nuts!!

Also, check out the podcasts and blog posts for more great REI tips and tutorials. 

There are several tutorials for this.

I'm receiving invitations to foreclosure seminars from the same group that originally hooked me into the go zone crap.

Don't buy crap paint - Behr, Dutch Boy (no offense R Gaba), etc. 6.

i've always been afraid to step up to a higher dollar amount per unit in case those rents fall, and then you're stuck with an expensive property that isn't cashflowing....i'm paying around 10-12k/unit for around 375-450 rents...great cashflow, but when you think that a fourplex i had grossed just a little over one of your apartments each month, and i had to deal with a lot of crap there, you begin to wonder about other strategies...

i go back and forth with this almost every day it seems..now when people ask me how many properties, i usually say "enough" or "oh, i don't even know anymore" and then a good hearty laugh makes them forget about how i dodged the question...i'm currently reading j.j. luna's "how to be invisible"...very eye opening and a great readEDIT: I suppose I own nothing, since it's all in companies....crap, just realized that I'm flat out broke with no assets :)

Unfortunately, his statement is too broad, and productive Farm land in the United States, is a crap shoot, so how does he see this as a valuable asset class.