You'll still have your ordinary maintenance calls for clogged toilets, lack of hot water, and maybe even some unusual ones like a crock pot that didn't properly heat and cook their casserole.Short-term makes more money but takes more time, period.

In this day and age it is unusual to get something for nothing...

You get unusual response rates and stellar deal rates, even as a "newbie".Good job Crystal and I hope you can keep us updated with your progress and success.

Nothing unusual here.

It's not unusual that folks will ask for an application but then you'll never hear from them again.  

4.75 is not unusual for investment property right now.

So if I can't get a cash-on-cash return of a MINIMUM of 9% (the extra 2% for the extra effort vs just buying an ETF), I know that it's not worth my time to do a deeper analysis, barring unusual circumstances.

As far as updating the education, I would let my knowledge of unusual loan products lapse and become well-versed in my particular markets or niches, such as multi-units to start.

Even on the other end, when you don't have any of your money in the deal, you can still make more money by doing higher dollar houses and/or more of them (not to mention your risk of loss is way, way lower).As far as this deal, its unusual that someone would have 30 houses bought and not have the money to rehab them, but I could see me doing something like that on a bulk deal or something. 

It had an unusual breakdown.