I was still paying the loan and keeping the insurance paid. one day a lady knocked on the door and said we had to move out because the property had been foreclosed on.

You can have someone knock that out for 300 bucks combined.Those windows are gonna cost you WAY more money than you think, that's a painful lesson I've learned from experience.A nice, clean, used range can be had from an appliance reseller for 250-300 delivered, easy.Front door may very well cost you more if you replace the whole thing.Save some money on the flooring, 5500 is a lot of money for $500 rent/unit700 for a tub handle???

And as stated above top agents dont need rentals they knock down big money rentals to them with drip income probably are not worth their time ..

I had a 3 teams women /men who door knocked every NOD in the 2 million MSA of Portlandia.. 

Too many Landlords get spun up trying to call, email, text, knock on the door, etc.

Cold Calling, Direct mail, door-to-door knocking, RVM etc.I would suggest using direct mail only if you can follow through with a proper mailing campaign.

And I sense you can knock a sliver off the asking price; alternatively have them contribute towards closing costs.

As I knock out loans my CF increases, so I am back to wondering about the efficiency of ordering my loan pay down process.For Example:An advocate of the Snowball Method would probably order them C, D, B, AAn advocate of the Avalanche Method would probably order them B, D, C, ABut is there a better way?

Two ways to learn this 1 school of hard knocks, you try and learn an figure it out on your own. 2 you have a mentor teach and show you. 4.

Yep - I started buying houses for under $5,000 - therein was my wake-up call - my street seminar - the school of "hard-knocks -- guess what - I survived and made some serious profits from junk real estate in Baltimore.Looking back on all those cheap houses, I guess I was fortunate to have very little knowledge and even less money - I had no choice but to learn the creative aspects of investing - I used credit cards, I did subject-to's, delayed settlements, financing companies, tax sales and foreclosures -- I was forced to learn how to fix these dirty dogs - I would get on roofs with Jack-Legs to learn how to do them myself, hanging dry wall, the art of mud, electrical and carpentry ----- WOW was I ever lucky to be unemployed with no money and a force that pushed me to achieve cash flow or equity.