Or, get an excavator for half a day or so, and dig a bunch of test holes.  

I bought my first house in great neighborhood few months ago at Auction with built in equity. it's worth over half million.

Analysis the deal with only half the rents, and this will surely be a real stinker.  

And actually I am kinda using my primary home as a rental property as i have 2 friends that live with me and cover over half of the mortgage. 

I have been dabbling off and on in real estate for many years but I got serious last year and now I'm looking to acquire my first investment property (2 -3 units) in the first half of this year.

I've already been through half of J.

So currently, I am 29 and for all intents and purposes, half of my income is from rentals.

My name is Andy Taylor (don't say it) and I am a new wanna-be investor from the Houston area (Magnolia, actually, which is 40 or so miles north of Houston proper).I stumbled onto BiggerPockets.com after a late-night Half-Price Books run that saw me come home with an armload of discounted Rich Dad books while on a recent out-of-town trip.

It's a half day event.

There are 12000 or so in highest population around me (less than half an hour drive)....wondering if it's worth it to take the class and pay the yearly fee??