There is no such thing as FREE college, FREE food, FREE housing, FREE health care.

This tenant has since had another child and moved to a different larger unit of mine and is still one of my favorite tenants.

Despite current unemployment rates maintaining below 5%, the recent rise from 3.8% to 4.2%(recently revised to 4.1%) is significant, especially when considering wage growth adjusted for inflation.Over the last few years, the median household income has dropped by 7.2% when adjusted for inflation (and this isn't even considering volatile food and energy prices), a troubling trend given that inflation has outstripped income growth.

Tell us your favorite haunted real estate stories!

Then make a list of your favorite places.

Factors such as competition, food trends, lack of management, ingress etc, can close these stores. 

You get what you pay for in all cases: while shopping for food, clothes, attorneys, CPAs, Doctors and Realtors. 

It is hard to sell a property when you have such a good rate and it is possible that it could cash flow done correctly.You sound like you might be interested in commercial mixed use, it's one of my favorite asset classes out there because it's diversified in and of itself.

You can't predict how someone will react to any circumstance.Let me ask you this:Where would you go if you were a hungry lion in the savannas of Africa to find food?

Wholesaling is NOT investing.Wholesaling is a business.Wholesaling requires you to continuelly get new leads, sell contracts to buyers, repeat.Once you stop getting leads or finding buyers, there is no more money coming in.Sure, you can get food and automate certain things but it is a business.In my opinion, you should look at what you do in your profession and see if you can moonlight some hours to make more money that will go towards the downpayment.Best of luck