The posts looking for suggestions are so fractured.

Your nose is your inspector.. 

Too often, I see people waiting for the brass ring that continuously eludes them while prices are going up and returns are coming down and they never pull the trigger on good investments right under their nose.

If I had been hard nosed I would have given him an eviction notice then and there.

Spending too much time investing out of state and the one right under my nose fell apart on me, ha!

Stuff like non-conforming property like fractured condos.

If so, how do you possibly make money in REI if you are paying out the nose on just interest? 

I always eventually fell behind, no matter how hard I climbed up the latter or how much brown nosing I had to endure.Thanks for the input.

Many MB and NMB banks don't finance fractured condos (the are Fannie Mae 'non-conforming') and those that do will look at combined value limits. for instance, 1st and 2nd mortgages (including a LOC if you can find one on NOO) will be 70% on a FNMA N-C fractured condo: 80K * 70% = 56K.

But, if you have to start out by upgrading the in fracture you'll be biting off a big chunk of your ROI from the get go.