After skimming this thread, I see something that has not been mentioned yet, and that is "Usery" laws, aka loan sharking.I myself was luckily saved by a savvy attorney that caught my actions before I lost over $100k.

Well I caught them skimming the books and they fled the state leaving me holding the bag.

The geographic names on posts tend to jump out at people who are skimming through the forums, in my opinion.

The big money is in 4+ units where you increase the rents and the rent increase automatically increases the Cap Rate and the property's re-sale value.I would like to see more people pushing people to understand the power of multi-units and the very strange thing is that I skim through every real estate book I can get my hands on and every book I ever read is missing the very most important facets of multi-unit investing and every book is full of pure B.S. when it comes to the subjects to the pitfalls of multi-unit investing.

You might be able to skim through lots of shows until you hear a topic that really grabs your attention.

Some people will shoot you a low bid then try to milk you for more money placing it on unseen problems.  

When evaluating PMs, it is important to understand how a PM may be skimming profits in a variety of clever ways that they keep secret from the homeowners.

(you might have to pay some closing costs unless they can roll them into the FHA loan).[2] A lender who will lend to you.[3] Acceptable lender credit.But job #1 is to stabilize yourself indoors, then get a second job and save up some emergency money so this is less likely to happen to in the future.If you get  a second job at a resturant --maybe you can eat for free there.If you are depressed--get some counseling....some place charge a sliding scale on what you can afford.This is just a skim over view on this stuff...It will probably take you a couple of years to get your act together to where you are comfortable buying..so in the mean time study.Good Luck!

I've been saying that we have no real evidence that it had any part in the original article linked.I skimmed these articles so I may have missed it.

Do you think the Tenant has paid the same price for milk or hamburgers the last 20 years?