To compound the issue many of the biggest companies have this weird unwritten rule where they don't really want their MLOs to know how things work; they just want them to get back on the phone and get their dials up.This is for everyone that does want to know:Bank - Is FDIC insured. 

Bowe

Phase 2 will be an LRT from Fairview Park Mall to the Ainslie Terminal in Cambridge, phase 1 is expected to be complete in 2017.SummaryThe combination of these 3 factors as well as many others will successfully compound and build off each other over the next several years to consistently increase property values.

Take a bow!

Compounded with misconceptions of what adds value and does not.

I just reinvest to compound but if I pulled them out it would be regular income.

I'll bow out now.

Started looking at 30K houses in S.C.S. but they needed way to much work such as basement walls bowing in. 50-60K seemed more doable.

Historically those area (So Cal and San Fran)and their appreciation has clobbered the cash flow areas.To give you an idea for my properties, every one that I have owned at least 3 years has returned better than 10% compounded annually on initial investment and my longest goes back to 1992. 

Luckily you have about 10 days to comply but I've seen vacant properties in various stages of foreclosure run up $20k tabs (that interest really compounds over 5 years).