After a couple of years I'll hopefully have enough properties where I can leave my miserable job. :)2) Get a hard money loan and buy a property.

Maybe you can raise it to 650 on the anniversary date.If you can not evict you will need to make their lives as miserable as possible, legally of course ;) 

I was a bit naive on some things and as I had shared with someone offline I dont know that I'd have been brave enough to take the leap to this business had my former employer at my W2 job made my life so miserable I hit rock bottom...so I have to give kudos to them for kicking me in the butt and throwing me over the cliff.  

In CA if you try to let go a non-performing section 8 tenant chances he will win at court making landlord miserable.

Brett Merrill You will fail miserably.

You don't want the type of person that is going to be a worry wart or distrustful or make your life miserable in any way. 3. 

I bought a four-plex in October with the VA loan, so up front costs were miserable.

I don't want to end up like most people I know; trading time for money, only looking forward to weekends off, missing out on my kids' lives to punch a clock or living a "comfortably miserable" life blaming someone or something else for my lack of ambition and success.

Early this year my wife and I sold an apartment for a nice profit (we bought cash and lived in it for 1.5yrs) and it took me few months to realize... maybe we can repeat it (buy a broken house/apartment, fix it and sell it) but we should educate ourselves better after I failed miserable in the hype of 2005-07 Real Estate bubble and credit is no so good.

I wouldn't mind 5% down - I hear 203K loans are miserable to work with!