Most of the foolish beginner's pitfalls and potholes could be avoided by learning from someone who has already made those mistakes, learned from them, and moved on to success.If you have spent any amount of time here on BP you will have come across numerous posts from investors who blast the novice entrepreneur for clogging up the market with bad deals, or more concerning to me, accidentally break the law and risk major issues.

Not without mistakes and lessons learned but I did well on it.  

With our second property we made some big mistakes because we were ignorant; wish we would have known about BP back then.

Let's assume worst case scenario, and I can not stay. there is always an option to be a foreign investor, isn't there?

Need help not making mistakes.

Originally, I started trying to get a license in California because I lived there, but the class I was in for Principles and Practices ended up being the worst possible class ever because the teacher was completely useless (he literally spent 99% of the time talking about how great it was to be a broker and how he's a broker in 3 states and how most of us would fail at being a real estate professional).

Unless you can purchase a D-property and reposition it to become a C-property, you’re better off staying away from them.To recap, here are a few rules of thumb for these property types: A properties will have the greatest appreciation, but the worst cash flow.

Mold inside the walls has been removed and the house was treated for cockroach infestations at their worst in areas that have been made wet from leaks.

We want to stay as close to home as possible (we live in Limerick), and are curious about the best/worst areas to invest.

Some of that cost is also absorbed into my CapExI'm pretty sure these are all worst case numbers so at the current stage of negotiations, if I accepted, I am going to at least break even, barring no catastrophes.