Focus on learning market trends, property valuation, and different investment strategies.

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Don’t Do Multiple Property TypesAvoid the temptation to juggle different property types.

I think @Brian G. and @Jaycee Greene hit it on the head: an event occurring/debt resetting.When the debt forcefully resets on some of these assets, valuations drop if the submarket cap rate has expanded and/or if the operator can not show a good t-3, t-6 etc due to economic vacancy and rising opex (insurance, r&m etc).If the operator can't inject equity to cover the difference, then trouble arises.

Your realtor can give you all the actual sales comps to help you see the difference between the listing price and the actual sales price.I however do have a little contrarian advice. 

debt consolidation 20 months ago" is very different than bankruptcy.

Great to hear that you are exploring your investment options and learning about the different options you have.

But we are all in a different boat an these decisions should be treated as such.

Rich Ng That's good to know, I know people who have had issues in Salem with big differences between market and section 8.

@Steve Smith I think enough is enough when you look in the mirror too many times saying "I need to do something different."