In my area, copper theft is typically seen in vacant houses where drug addicts break in to steal mostly the copper pipes but sometimes some wire as well. 

I am a complete newbie when it comes to real estate but after listening to 8 episodes of the Bigger Pockets Podcast in the last week I think I may have a new addiction.

After I bought one of my first houses, I heard of another investor that bought a house for the unbelievable price of $20,000.

Account Closed, your forgot the folks with substance abuse problems and gambling addictions, and of course those who are really terrible landlords. 

Unless one is homeless,very poor, or drug addict , very bit of society is expecting their children to be educated with college as minimum.- we know lot of degree in US is bad, but that kind of degree is only available in US, so take degree that gives you good financial reward and available globally.- and if your next question in the next 10 year would be "can I quite my job in my 35, while having real estate as income".

Unbelievable stuff!

Most of us are addicted to looking for new properties.

like i can see people getting addicted to many things in life, but to simply hang around real estate and take no action has puzzled me for ever. 

It’s inhabited by a bunch of drug addicts.

Either because of lack of caring, poverty mentality, lack of child supervision, anger at landlord, or excessive number of people in an apartment, the amount of damage done to the apartments by tenants was almost unbelievable.