RE has earned a bad rap, worse than used car dealers, operators and investors have brought it upon themselves and it all boils down to a bit of disrespect of the industry out of a lack of knowledge, that stemming from those starry eyed groupies being too lazy to learn being overcome by greedy selfishness, in other words, not interested in learning what might be seen as nonproductive aspects of the industry.

The snyde remarks and borderline insults seem to stem from a general distaste of the flood of "guru" induced frenzy that has affected the marketplace in recent years. 

And I remember reading in one of Robert Kiyosaki's books he said that financial intelligence is stemmed from your vocabulary that you use; just how a doctor has his own vocabulary and a lawyer so does an investor, a sophisticated investor most definitely.

You have to be in a good spot with your primary home and have a decent cash wad if you are going to safely stem in IMO.

I think that most(95%)view investors in a poor light(pot calling kettle black).That stems from agents not understanding investors business model."

I am aware of situations in which RE can have liitle to no value, my comment stemmed from the show itself where pros who buy at courthouse steps for cash - in such a scenario, there are no bank loans and they are usually buying at $100k or more.

The closing of the Sub2 and the sale to the tenant buyer is practically simultaneous since there's a buyer lined up already.No, I understand how a simultaneous close works, but here's where my question stems from.Your seller is getting 20K UP FRONT.

I created this thread from questions and answers via PM from another BP member to me and thought it was good stuff for all to read, so here it goes:This first question stems from another post which can be found here:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/37607"I'm searching for my 1st deal and I've been reading a lot of your posts and have learned a great deal.

But if that influence stems from that same company receiving tax dollars from US tax payers, now we have an issue!

This stems from mixing up yield versus return.