If you have a healthy income outside of real estate, investing in a property in a market with healthy long term fundamentals at essentially a break even will, in the long term, contribute dramatically to your net worth.

@Justin Boddie, new information always changes the landscape dramatically.1.

A good mentor will help you cut the learning curve dramatically and save you time.

Keep it short and sweet and provide quick and easy to read materials for the judge to look over and digest.Let the tenant dig themselves a grave by being dramatic and talking at great length and annoying the judge.

It's true prices had dropped dramatically make me think to purchase a property and rent it.

It sounds like you have a huge chunk of equity you could use for the down payment without dramatically changing your current lifestyle.

I'm a huge personal fan of urban real estate (I live in King William a historic district in downtown).I also have found that in quickly gentrifying area the appreciation swings are WAYYY more dramatic.

However, when the employer's profits sag dramatically, employees will be laid off. 

Also, make sure that you have a proven, easy-to-follow step by step process that will speed your learning curve dramatically.

Depends dramatically on location.