If you consistently analyze properties, recognizing a good deal will be much easier when it shows up.

I recognize that creating an separate LLC for each unit would provide the most protection but that would create a lot of administration on my part.

Most finance companies do not recognize the transfer as a sale.  

It’s better to recognize that they all provide non-conventional loans.

I thought of banking on appreciation and rate drops as pure speculation and akin to gambling.

Part of growing is recognizing our own failures, not shifting the blame to others, even when its really easy to see their faults.

Prices stopped climbing, unemployment grew, and individuals sud denly realized that they were no longer holding on to investments but rather playing in the world’s largest game of legalized gambling—and they had just lost.

I recognize there are people on this forum Who have successfully accomplished this scale on these cheap rental Units.

If you have $100,000 in your brokerage account to borrow against, why not just use the money and secure a traditional loan, versus gambling with an unknown and variable future rate?

  (2) This  investor owns SFH's in a market that possesses the fundamentals but sells prematurely and fails to take advantage of the primary appreciation event. (3) This investor fails to recognize the equity generated through the primary appreciation event is better served being reinvested in more efficient asset classes that will generate a greater return profile after the primary appreciation event occurs.