I don't think it's worth buying so/so properties that cash flow OK, I've just started looking at properties again ready to buy the next one - and I'm being even more strict making sure I find ones that are great.

I guess I've just been in CA too long!

I've just started getting into real estate investing over the past few months.

Spending so much to get these places set up, I've just been churning sign-up bonuses the last year or so. 

I've just been around the block a few times, both on my own steam and I've been taken for rides now and again.

@Doug Phillips I recently found out about single payment mortgage insurance where you pay the PMI upfront rather than month to month.

I recently found a 3 flat on the south west side of Chicago and my investors ran for the hills.

Hey Everyone, I've recently found a property by using a kind of new approach - researching the homes, finding homes that fit my criteria, then contacting the owners on Facebook.

@Timothy HowdeshellAh, but if someone went to a special school, and did a special thing or two, and then did real estate, and then distilled down all their knowledge into a package of principles and checklists and spreadsheets...maybe you could be coached by this special person or by other special people who had already learned his special system...I've just described every real estate guru program in America.

Hi - I've just joined as well - and I am in the St.