This is by no means a serious or life altering question, but I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on listening to the podcasts starting from #1 and going up to #239 or the other way around? 

Used PropertyBase for years, which is an offshoot of SalesForce, and is very specific to realtors but can be altered to be useful for investors too.

It is a Federal Crime to modify or make any repairs/alteration to HUD homes prior to closingAs an investor, you will not receive your earnest money back based on the results of the inspection

*Translation: the T10 is the 10yr Treasury rate which is the reference benchmark for pretty much everything real estate related whether debt or equity.

Many homeowners, at a variety of points - of - time, decide to pursue certain repairs and/ alterations.

A Deferred Sales Trust (DST)The DST offers an attractive and flexible tax deferral alterative to a 1031 Exchange.

-Can you alter leases later on?

Which translates to more demand = more $.

It is actually a federal crime to alter a HUD property3. 

Instead of waiting patiently for a real deal to come along or altering their current or past approach so that they can ideally better locate a real deal, they start putting on their rose tinted glasses with ARVs, neighborhoods, and repair costs and compromising their math or analysis formulas because, darn it, doing any deal has to be better than not doing a deal at all, RIGHT??