Making money in real estate is easy at times, without a real education it's not so easy. 

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It's pretty easy to see that real estate proces peaked around 2007-2008 and then crashed during the Great Recession.Around 2011-2012 prices started to recover and got back to their pre-Crash highs around 2015-2016, but really 2018-2019 when adjusted.So, why are newbies reading books written BEFORE 2019 and thinking that you can still successfully invest using the EXACT advice in these relatively "old" books?

Fees should be clearly stated in writing, easy to understand, and justifiable.

It's easy to obtain, costs very little, and doesn't require extra, on-going effort to maintain.

For me, it was easy.

You can beat that negative cashflow easy.

Once you do, then you can verify if it's hard or easy to flip there.Couple questions I would be asking, how long does the permit process take.

As mentioned above it there are dozens if not a hundred+ small items that are easy to forget that guests will expect you to have (can opener, wine opener, oven mitts etc) 

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