For instance, there is another buy and hold investor at my church.

We lend money through an agent/church friend who supposedly know what she's doing.

I even partnered with a Church (their rectors house) and ended up making them more money than what they would have made if they sold it to me cash.Always use the low cash, higher if you owner finance strategy - your cash on cash returns soar when they option for the latter.

I am a musician and worship leader at my church, and I love all sorts of music from Big Band to R&B, Classic Rock, and 80's stuff, and of course the Rat Pack.

The property is a block from a high school and directly across from a large church that is very active and well maintained.

I lost money for several years and eventually donated the building to the church next door to convert to a halfway house to help former drug addicts get the help they need to recover.I would like to eventually own some apartments as a long term investment.Seeking to network with successful real estate investors and eventually reach my real estate goals by helping people rather than taking advantage of them.

We are not the charity, we use pre-existing charities (rugby teams, churches, outreach programs, to name a few) in our transactions.

I do have a friend at Church that flips here in SD so I'll talk to him for some info on his business and give you his answers.

Nothing is off limits, religion, politics, music that really stinks, health insurance, corporate rip offs, younger women who refuse to go out with old men, old men that ask younger women out, or men I guess, movies full of kids, church dinners where evryone brings the same dish, stop lights that aren't syncronized, whatever....Yes, I'll do one on late night RE gurus!

The owner was a very nice but very old lady who came dressed as though she was going to church, resplendent in a large hat with a lot of decoration.