It's for bettors, not investors, in my mind.If you are a long-term buy and hold investor, then you want to be looking for stable markets with strong underlying fundamentals of population growth and job growth, and you want to be looking for strong cash flow with a built-in margin of safety for when the economy inevitably turns down and your vacancy goes up, so that you can still meet your debt service and not get foreclosed on.So many new investors see other people making money in a hot market and want to jump in too.  

This is where a title report (O&E) come in handy.  

It does not apply to Schedule E.  

If someone comes to me, I'll send them your way.If you need help in your search or want to verify something don't hesitate to ask.For example: I have clients worldwide and things are just as easy as I e-mail them, talking on the phone.

http://www.cbsnews.com/media/the-10-hottest-real-e...Here's an article that says that Orlando will see the largest rise in home prices this year, at 5.7%.Considering real estate as an investment, these returns are very low compared to the stock market.According to this, one should never invest in the value of real estate because there money would be much better in stocks or even municipal bonds.

Greetings Philippe,I am not familiar with the all in k e loan but I do currently utilize a heloc for my endeavours.

hello everyone. here is my question. first let me explain the situation. i like to look into investing in " zombie" houses, i. e. those houses that are in foreclosure or pre-forclosure that banks have dropped from their portfolio. i know of a house that was vacated by the owner in approximately 2010. originally financed by countrywide, which was bought out by bank of america. there has been NO litigation filed on this house by the bank, NONE. not even a start of a foreclosure. the owner filed bankruptcy in 2013. the house has been vacant since she moved out in 2010. no one is taking care of it. it appears the bank has lost intrest in the place. there was  a $40k mortgage on it, and the place would be lucky to bring $10k right now. my question:i know i can buy the intrest of the house from the original owner. i believe i can talk her into this. ( i have done it before). how can i get the bank to either file the release of lien on the place or finish the foreclosure so i could perhaps buy it from them?  

Emily, you need to go back to RE fundamentals, seems you began all this jumping into investor stuff first and went from there.First access the area, do you know the % of rentals to the area inventory?

Is it to save a little bit of money having to list it with a realtor and them taking the 1st months rent or w/e the agreement is for payment?

They also say that the house is close to E.