@Danny Webber thank you I appreciate the truth and if I need to take more time building my cash pile to have more skin in the game by maybe wholesaling or just working than that's fine.

Hi - completely new to the game of rental real estate.

Judging from the first few pages of the beginner's guide, I think we're looking at possibly doing some buy and hold strategies on single family homes and duplex/triplex/quads, since we both love our jobs and aren't quite ready to jump into the real estate game full time.The amount of information to read up on and understand is dizzying, and I have never so much as held a mortgage of my own. 

Lenders want you as an owner to have "Skin in the game".

I'd like to know if the Mortgage Information on the app is accurate? I am trying to find the remaining balance on a property that is in pre-forclosure. Is the number under the "Mortgage amount" the remaining balance? ...

98115 - 6.5% 98105 - 5.9%98109 - 5.5%Lynwood  (98036) - 8.7%This is what Zillow says, but i would rather rely on area experts than some machine learning algorithm.

For the most part it doesn't matter and is purely a numbers game, but you will probably have less competition if you avoid the absentee owner lists as that is seemingly everyone's first stop.

The house sold, the new guy comes in and says he's going to put coin machine laundry in the unit (which was never mentioned), and is in the process of digging up half of the yard we were told we'd have in order to put in a new garden. 

There must be a reason why.Rajah your quite amusing... this is an investor buying a property.. the other lady is trying a sales gig she never did before apples and oranges.. we buy property at auction most every week.. its the name of the game. 

Dude, you already know the most complicated part of this game.