I’ve just heard horror stories about renters’ kids flushing toys down the toilet or some nonsense like that.

I've just been approached by another home owner over there with a similar senerio.

Ben Leybovich - who apparently I am not high level enough to tag here ;) - has a great paper on analyzing multifamily properties http://justaskbenwhy.com/Keep us posted on your progress, I've just started looking at stepping up into multi and Tampa is one of the areas I'm curious about.

Hi Barbara, I recently found BP as well, and wish I had sooner!

I also recently found my notebook from when I lived in Boston in the 1990s and saw 3 family properties for sale for $150k that are now $1 million.

My strategy is buy and hold and I’ve just acquired my third deal.

Visit my BP profile to find the link to my blog(Not very well updated I promise I will do it I've just been busy!)

Quote from @Dave Skow: @V.G Jason  thanks   1) make sure you are  clear with aany agent  upfront that your plan is to use  seller financing  approach    2)  you might  get   formally   pre approved  with a lender  in case you find the  right property but the  seller  financingisnt possible  I've just gone with only do seller financing if the owner is mortgage free.

However, I can tell you that I've just mailed out my first set of letters to your (our) target customers and I'm going to mail to that list for about 6-7 months.

I've just been casually getting my ducks even more in a row than they already are, which is kind of a nice spot to be in.