I say it's more likely people will leave when they need to leave and you can't get blood from a stone.

Hello ordered the blood today and very excited to get my hands on it.

. $10k now days is nearly same as $0.00, so for any and all asking "can I start doing REI with _____" correct that question to ask the reality "am I willing to do what it takes of me TO start doing REI, all the blood sweat tears and frustration?"

Got a contract on a burn house back in October from a driving for dollars one off post card, lined up a buyer, and had heir-ship issues (found a missing heir through skip tracing and turned out he was looking for 'blood' on the lady trying to sell the house) which caused it to fall through.

Other than that we didn't have to do the roof, the siding (other than a power wash), didn't really do any landscaping, didn't do the windows, didn't do the kitchen (other than appliances), didn't touch either bathroom, didn't do ANY flooring, didn't touch the heating system (other than a servicing which resulted in about $275 to fix something with a circulator on the boiler since it hadn't fired in ~2years), didn't intend on doing any plumbing (when we did fire up the boiler there was some leaks and resulted in an $1,800 change order [the only one of the job]), didn't even have to change any of the light fixtures as they were pretty close to what I would have bought anyway, it was on septic but it had a passed inspection so we didn't do anything with that either.Seriously what can you do for $5/sqft?

Population is actually reducing but as money circulated is growing fastre than population, that drives up the real estate price. 

Names circulate quickly among Realtors, when your name gets around......well, you'll basically be ignored.

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.