Look, if you have a shark swimming in the waters and there are poachers dangling rotten fish in the shallows with blood oozing from its gills...

It´s a small amount and going back and forth with a tenant on something like that, insinuating they have to pay because they are too dumb to figure stuff out could create bad blood over nothing.

Not one of them has ever said it was a bad decision buying their property I would say all of them would probably say it was the best thing they've ever done.Here's my plan take from it what you will (I wish my parents knew enough to do this).I have two kids and soon as they turn 18 I will have them buy a 4-unit using FHA 3.5% down and a blood relative (me) as a non-occupying co-borrower and source for down payment.

If real estate is truly in your blood I would highly recommend obtaining a sales type position either as a Realtor or as a mortgage broker.  

Also US population has much higher obesity rate (high blood pressure) and I saw somewhere this fact alone could contribute to the higher death rate than S.

IT is in my blood.

Some of my family members have RE investment properties and I guess it's in my blood!

I had to pay it in money, blood, sweat, tears, overcoming fears, frustration, hard work, and tenacity. 

The truth what I gather so far is that the rule cannot be fully applicable all over America;  just look for the decent communities who life blood businesses went to China, and you would find people who are trying to bring back communities.

Personally, I think that for most of us in the investing world, the road to the first 10-20 doors will be marked with a great deal of blood, sweat and tears.