Please excuse my "off topic" ice breaker, but you can start listening to the BP podcasts and watching some of the BP youtube videos. 

If the deal and sponsor are good then the tax benefits are the icing on the cake.

Taking into consideration I put 10% to 20% down initially, mortgages paid down considerably, I made back 20 to 30 times the initial investment.So, in answer to your question, I make my killing on appreciation, and the monthly cash low is just icing on the cake. 

One school of thought is, as the article states, the hedge funds, private equity firms, etc. buy these notes in bulk, skim the cream off the top, and sell them to the firms "downstream".

PS- I hope they make a good Old Fashioned with the big ice cube!

Plenty of snow and ice on the lake.

thats the same date as the woodlands event at Sawyer Ice house. 

This is how I started as finding cash flowing in my area is very hard and I am after passive income stream so cashflow was important, any appreciation is icing on the cake.

If buy and hold is anywhere on your road map then that's a great way to get familiar with the ins and outs of being a landlord, and it saves you commute time when issues pop up, and, extra icing on the cake, you can use FHA financing for up to 4 unit properties.

No to the ice machine.