Then, once you've found something where the deals being offered are comparable to the market (you're not going to get screaming good deals going this route), the claimed rents seem about right, and properties come and go for both for-sale and for-rent properties, buy a plane ticket.

He should have been grateful that the police were there to investigate a possible break-in and fully cooperated with them, not acted like a racist idiot by refusing to prove who he was and screaming obscenities at the officer(s).

I say, be proud of it and scream from the mountaintops "MY GOAL IS TO MAXIMIZE MY INVESTOR'S RETURN, AND I DO THAT BY MAKING STRATEGIC REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT DECISIONS!"

At all the townhall meetings I attended, it was the neighbors who literally screamed about "the transients."

@Richard BalsamHeey Mr Richard.. you have one of those faces that screams "I trust you".Awesome.You have taken the same approach as me.

Nobody listing agent is going to run to you screaming "buy my overpriced garage deal".  

If I analyze the data and all signs point to buy, corelogic can scream sell all it wants to.

In the end it was a screaming deal and I learned from it so I can't complain much 😉

@Austin GreenIt looks like I am going to be in the minority here ... and I can already hear the screams and groans --I left my career about 3 years ago --- In the previous 4-5 years I had developed sufficient passive income from rental property to pay my bills -- so I decided to leave a 16year career and give up health insurance and retirement benefits, etc.  

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."