I, too am a finance geek at heart but have become a fix-all over the years.  

Update: The appraiser said he would be there yesterday at 2...my agent... bless her heart... sat there and waited on him for 1 1/2 and he was AGAIN a no show...no one is that busy...I really can not figure out what is going on...

HUD's been out of the business of funding landlords with money for decades. that's one of the areas where the training comes in: influencing landlords and aspiring 'vendors' to learn how to form the state, county, city, community, private & corporate/institutional partnerships that lead to a HUD Sec. 8 grant award becoming available as a "program". if you for instance want to charge elderly tenants $ 2,400 a month for a two bedroom dwelling you can propose that criteria within your Sec. 8 grant proposal as a 'program' vendor. a lot of military veterans that are mildly disabled have allowances for that target range of rent with a live-in home care attendant, or home health aid assistant. most well known regional markets have 5+ year Sec. 8 waiting lists of very desirable tenants that you can cherry pick to your heart's content, featuring all manor of financial circumstance. they range from homeless to affluent with interim insolvency due to quite practical reasons. divorce is a very prominent scenario. a growing wave of real estate heirs are among those Sec. 8 waiting lists in more and more strategic regions. you may find that interacting with more recently credentialed occupancy certification specialists can better acquaint you with the actual yield(s) that would be available from the wide unrelated contributors to a potential Sec. 8, or locally subsidized program military bases also circulate routine information on what certain types of housing is worth to their ongoing efforts for key time intervals. their veteran G.

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(I made that up, but I think that's actually close)I think we should all be so lucky to have a heart able to willingly let go of a few billions of dollars, no matter how much we have.

Surgeons don't go straight into open heart surgery - they learn to stitch up a wound first.   

We purchased a large multi-unit medical building in the heart of Parma, Ohio late last year.

Find an agent that has your best interests at heart and is familiar with real estate investing.

I've been briefly considering oil and gas careers simply for the money (and the fact I wouldn't have to work in a law firm) but real estate has my heart.

We ended up taking on the property management as the company we used did not have our best interests at heart and we're capable of managing the property on our own.