I have been taking money orders for the first month's rent and the SD, but now I have heard that someone can give you a money order and then go to the issuer immediately and (fraudulently) claim it was lost to void it.

Your mortgage payment is not part of expenses and it goes up every 5 years so you lose more unless rent goes up faster, a dangerous gamble for those with no crystal ball.

I recently saw a deal on a duplex in San Francisco in a prime neighborhood with a cap rate on existing rents of 2.5%. Rents a bit below market, but not crazy. Building in good condition. Great location. This number...

It is a bad choice to go ahead without seeing property, its like a gamble.

On the other hand, Las Vegas is an international destination with vast potential if the economies of its neighbor states improve.I do what people do in Vegas: I gamble!

That's not an investment, it's a gamble.

I don't see an upside, it sounds like gambling to me, and I hate flushing $$$ into slot machines.

Not that it is a really poor post, or that I disagree entirely, but there are flaws, especially where a few things are stated as if they are fact, while just opinions.Using seller financing in any form is generally accomplished on a short term basis, but can be accomplished for more than 5 and 10 years, having done so hundreds of times.A word of caution too, that omitting your obligations on a FNMA 1003 (loan application) would make it a fraudulent loan application.

Do Options and flip them quickly to make up front money.3, From Edmon go to Miami, don't gamble just find people with money and make friends.

There are lots of legal ways to structure things that otherwise could be considered illegal, fraudulent etc.