-----------------------------------------Go back to college, get your degree, and stop being a short-term-horizon idiot.That said, when you go back to college, make sure you take plenty of math, bookkeeeping, and business courses, and make time for the arts.

In the SE this is not the case unless you are very very good at tenant selection, which is more art than recipe.

My wife is finishing up her first semester as the art teacher at Pflugerville Elementary and we're looking at getting into a small multifamily that's maybe a little farther north than we are now (Burnet and 183ish).

Read these articles: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/mortgages-real-estate/10/should-you-use-seller-financing.asphttp://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/seller-financing-home-sales-30164.htmlhttp://www.realestateproarticles.com/Art/35649/264/Owner-Financing-How-Does-it-Work.html

How utterly amusing.Like any other business, REI is full of some of the smartest, competitive, well-connected and well-financed players in existence, who eat sleep and dream REI.You might just as easily 'dabble' in day trading, horse racing, Texas Hold-em or mixed martial arts.

Colorado State University - Pueblo, and the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo Convention Center provide culture and education to the area. 

I have been considering the areas around downtown especially around the arts district.

I hope to learn the art of investing in this forum.

And the salesman read my thoughts through my eyes and gently reminded me that this piece of functional art represented 18 months of a man's life, hand tying every knot. 

Sometimes titles will be given like " 4 plex of town homes," but the reality is appraisal and appraisal techniques follow a uniform process and yes there is art to it but there are guidelines just like in the lending business (DTI ratios, LTV's, seasoning periods, etc/etc).Could it be possible that those town homes are 4 individual APN# (assessors parcel numbers) ?