Real Estate values, nationally, have never decreased over any 10 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUSFocus on optimizing active income first.

Originally posted by @Jennifer McCurrach:One PM takes 8%, one 6%.

The second year we only spent $25,000, and achieved our original goals.  

I agree with the original poster. 

Originally posted by @Taylor McClure:I was talking to a man a week or so ago, and he said that his friend used to buy properties that were a few days prior to foreclosure.

Originally posted by @Kenneth Bullock:@Mindy JensenryrfWhat does this mean? 

We're trying to best screen the applicants and my original standard was 3x monthly income and credit scores of 650+.I recieved my first applicant which is a group of 3 (couple and their sister).

I don't care who teaches this stuff its fraught with danger to think you can take title and keep someone's mortgage in place for years and years stuff happens and when it does the original seller gets HAMMERED.

The original poster was talking about a $1M investment to get there which I would say that if someone invested $1M expecting that return 999/1000 times they would lose their entire investment (and that might be generous if it's a 1 in 1000)

This is my first investment of this sort and it has not worked out how I originally intended but I am learning from my mistakes and will be making better decisions in the near future What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?