., get a mortgage on a property you already own as opposed to getting a mortgage to purchase) there are two flavors - "rate and term" and "cash out". 

You might find you love it or might find that it's not what you thought and you want to do another niche of real estate investing.Many flavors of real estate out there for everyone who wants different things.

Today a trick companies use is putting real meat in but adding more salt and pepper for flavor with less meat in the mix.

My wife and I have put out several offers on a variety fo flavors - REO, HUD, Short Sale.No luck in getting one accepted yet, but something will pop soon.I have a question for those that use a higher EM amount.

Doing to of state deals come in 2 flavors - turn-key operators and going your own deals.

What is avg cost of eviction, etcThere are more, but wanted to give you a flavor.  

Take out maintenance and a reasonable management amount and if he likes you, you'll have a good chance at it.Get with an attorney to do the note and closing and set up a loan servicing company to service the note for both of you, you can search that on BP.If you have an LLC, title it in the LLC's name to begin with, you might be able to make it a commercial flavored loan staying away from all the issues I've been talking about today.

Just like in '06 where there wasn't a country club up and down the east coast that didn't have at least one member talking about how they got their cash in a hedge fund and knew a guy who could get them in with Bernie.Beware the flavor of the week. 

They are very different types of investments.Commercial RE comes in many flavors as well which further complicates the comparison.I'm starting off into commercial property investment in a small way so that I can get my feet wet.

I don't drink coffee or alcohol(Mormon) but I do drink flavored water!