Most people will sell you on the upside—cheap properties, high cash flow, and a growing city—but they conveniently skip over the challenges.Tenant risk is real.

They offer free skip tracing.

Skip the gf->wife part, it is now irrelevant, just say "with my wife." 

Some people I spoke with think it's their attempt to push their skip tracing  packages on you, but I cannot confirm this.Also, the text to lead percentage is .5, on average.

In the morning when we served breakfast to lots of people we used a drip pot and poured it into a large urn type percolator.

This experience taught me to trust my instincts more and never skip due diligence, even in areas I am less familiar with like basements and water intrusion.Any advice on how I should proceed would be greatly appreciated.

The difference is that I'm skipping over those amortized interest payments by giving the bank's money back sooner, so I'm annihilating.

We came in low with our offer, but were willing to skip the inspection (which had already been completed before we offered) and stipulated that we would close in 20 days, which was super valuable to the seller.

We came in low with our offer, but were willing to skip the inspection (which had already been completed before we offered) and stipulated that we would close in 20 days, which was super valuable to the seller.

Skip it!