You've earned $132,000 more by splitting your money and leveraging it.

Our online court records in CT are now automatically dropping tenants' evictions fro the record after 3 yrs, or even less. 

So we shall elucidate five myths and truths about investing in them.Myth 1: Distressed Properties Are Always Money PitsMost people think that distressed properties require major renovations, which wipe out profit returns.

I will add that to your question of 10% or 20%, you need to ask yourself whether you need the cashflow or not. 10% down would leave some money with which to buy more properties.

I also don’t have a problem spending the money to fight for this.

Just curious.If you are going to pay a PM, just be aware that you might not make any money on it.I just use a spreadsheet.

You are losing money on both properties. 

This is the scenario:I buy a fixer with some hard-money.

We only needed to pay earnest money and a portion of the closing fees bring upfront investment to 12-15K.

At that point we hired an independent appraiser and the numbers came back good and the hard money lender agreed to use them.