The results are uncannily close to your conclusions.  

We can also understand a div stock will not need a roof or have any ongoing turnover costs, vacancies, evictions, vandalism, code violations, insurance claims, sewer lines, landscaping blah, blah blah.Fortunately we can compare 5 years div stocks to 5 years random sfr returns and your friends blog conclusions are not debatable.

If the tenants are on longer term leases, you will need to honor that lease to its conclusion, or negotiate to transition the tenants over to your lease by mutual agreement.Remember, you will be taking someone's home away from them, so be kind.

At the conclusion of the session, the gentleman proceeded to talk about how he makes 10 grand for every person he invites into the group and that the classes will teach me all I need to know for only 20 grand.

In conclusion, I don't buy into the market collapse idea, but I also think the correction has already begun.

Use those resources and you can come to an accurate conclusion

I hate to make assumptions  and draw conclusions, but in my situation I'm not going to get financing based on income, credit score and reserves. 

That is unless you want to drop 10k into attornies to arrive at the same conclusion we have reached at this point as a community for free.

Working in the tech industry, I was able to save enough money (initially planned to buy a home for myself, but after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad the goal obviously changed) for my first investment.After analyzing the potential markets to invest (Ireland, UK, and Portugal), I came to the conclusion that Portugal was the best choice.

But in this case, I have others that are interested, and some of her story just does not quite sound conclusive.