As a community I think we should focus on helping people who have had their housing situation negatively impacted recover as quickly as possible.

@Lourdes Caballero  I agree with you wholeheartedly that negativity does no one any good. 

This creates a negative initial position.

You are not even scooping your initial investment so your cash on cash return is negative.

If you stayed with your parents for $0, then you have say, negative cash flow of $1,750. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

The problem was they start a new company every few years after scamming people so it was very little negative information on the new name, Launch Your Leads.

My preliminary research on Zak has not shown much negative things yet.

Where I live, we still have a severe shortage of homes--median time on market is still 7 days and it would likely be shorter if not for delayed negations being the norm. 

Any MF of the quality and size (50 up) I would have been interested in would have been cash flow negative for the next 5 years or so, even with 30% down.