If you say a clogged toilet is a minimal issue, then what happens if that is the only toilet in the house?  

Will it flow like broker real estate conventions where you pick and choose what parts you want to attend.Example say a person wants to network multifamily and retail but has little to zero interest in wholesaling.Will it be a lot of inexperienced chasing the few experienced??

Well, I'd suggest you use 5K to play with and leave 5K alone, starting off. 5K is enough to buy a coupleyears worth of payments on say a smaller note of 25K or so.

with so many homeowners turned landlords, i would say a ton of these people are negative cash flow.but with the recent run up in values, they are banking a lot of $, especially if they qualfied to buy a house during the downturn and rent out their former primary residence.

We could qualify someone to rent, say a $500 a month home.

From my puter - I'd say a Dorian Gray (Sherwin Williams) with an off-white for the porch and windows.

The way I look at it, if there's say a 5% chance any given year that I get a termite problem, and the cost to pay for the treatment if caught early is only $2000, then its not worth the cost of the bond.

Needless to say, a lot of RE professionals show up to Habitat, and it's a great place for networking. 2) Home Depot seminarsCheck Home Depot's website for their free classes, and you'll find that your local Home Depot has something going on every Saturday.

I have to say as a newbie, I have read a bunch of books since making this decision back in December '06, including the Kiyosaki stuff, a few other gurus, etc.

There is a very popular saying that all of the professional real estate investors say: “You make money in real estate when you BUY … not when you SELLâ€.