.), variations in local market conditions where they invest and expected minimum rates of returns that vary. 

They will give you lots of variations to choose from depending on what features you want to highlight. 

Not sure how it is in NY but usually if you give the tenant a 14 day notice, they have the right to cure, sometime even on the day of trial and you are stuck with them.

Don't trial and error it or depend on a forum for your education.

Once you get going you'll see quite a variation in investment size and frequency, but at the beginning you do what you have to do to build a track record and the trust of your investors. 

I am going to trial tomorrow for an appeal ironically in NJ.

Do they offer trial periods?

I would say trial and error, unfortunately.

That one has this very question in numerous states and variations, but with the common theme: "My sweetie and I were engaged and bought our house together before we were married.

Just a year or two ago, you could have qualified under a “sub-prime†variation of traditional lending, where income and credit were less of an issue; but given the sub-prime meltdown (many of these borrowers defaulting on their loans), these sub-prime options have gone away.