In other words, more people will be motivated by the prospect of losing a dollar they already have than will be to gain a dollar they don't yet have but have equal odds of achieving.

So to start off, my main focus is finding off-market deals and I stumbled upon a seller who is in a town 1.5 hours away from me. I'm based in Austin so I'm used to analyzing urban deals, but this seller has property i...

Hi @Emily Wilson, this may be a glitch that appeared a few days ago, which would explain the odd resurrection of many threads recenty.One thing to make sure of, if there are enough responses to need multiple pages, you'll be on the 1st page by default and that may be related to why you aren't seeing current posts. 

If you're taking weird deductions, your odds go up.

I know that's not what you want to hear but that will give you the highest odds of success. 

It is fair to assume that a security deposit 25 years ago was around $300, so odds are good she is telling the truth. 

Oddly enough, I am 31, will look into those articles!

Market rent for this unit is somewhere between 1850-2k.Pros - Best school system in the greater surround area, backs up to 1million+ waterfront homes(yes, odd neighborhood. drove through it. very nice, not trashy at all)-3/2 unit was renovated 2 years ago.

@Tim TeleThe fact you get your money back is good, but I think you are underestimating vacant, repairs, and insurance, so odds are you will actually cash flow nothing in the short term.

I want to let she my time and really ramp up having a consistent funnel of those leads coming in and mailing out to increase the odds of success monthly.