Next door is a better book but it’s old enough that you have to ignore numbers and just absorb the ideas. 

Use every avenue to find deals, direct mailers, realtors (I know there's a view that you can't find deals with realtors but if you ignore realtors you will miss out on pocket listings that do not show up on the MLS) Wholesalers,.....3.

Meanwhile your peers who own $100K houses in Detroit (no knock on Detroit, just used for illustration purposes) feel the need to create a convoluted web of entities and ignore most of what I shared.

IMO this is no way to make a living, but if chasing rents and ignoring tenants is the strategy, then you can definitely hit your 1%+ rule here in San Antonio.For my money we've been looking at small multi-family properties in mid to large size midwestern cities. 

When my amendment was ignored after its expiration after 4 business days, I filed a dispute with my financial institution to recoup my course fees.

Not because I was just throwing money around but because I spent more on renovations than I thought, and we had a basement issue that I ignored during the inspection.

People use single data points of sea level change as a marker, while ignoring the multitude of geological and other human impacts (erosion, wetland destruction, coastal development etc) that have an impact on land level.

IGNORE THE INTERNET!!

Unfortunately, you ignored multiple red flags during the vetting process and now you're paying a price.

Let’s use fictitious $100k property (we will ignore closing costs for this example) that goes up 10% total (this is less than 5% annual due to compounding) in 2 years.