Unfortunately with the current politics with anti rent increases, no evictions etc. in place this is much more challenging, but in the long run works extremely well.

I don’t try to convince people that are anti RE.  

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Unless it was winterized (water drained from systems and traps filled with anti-freeze, you can count on shattered pipes, toilets, water heaters, traps.

Are you aware from lenders have anti-flip clauses in their approval letters?

Since you are anti-debt (nothing wrong with that) and growing your portfolio slowly, I would suggest taking on a sideline to boost your income.

This site is rather anti-guru, author, mentor until the members see and understand what the real product is and how it's presented as well as the knowledge of the one offering services.

Pretty anti guru, creative financing is not piling up loans, it's the creative use of assets to facilitate a transaction. :)

I see you are an author, I like good authors.This site is not your average RE site, it's rather anti-guru.

Remember that even though we've been beaten up a bit lately with all of the talk about being passed up by China sooner or later and whatever other anti-US sentiment there is out there, the USA is still BY FAR the #1 place that people around the world would like to be and is also considered the safest place to invest in things.