Generally, when you cross the line on one issue you have also crossed the line on other related areas of law.

I suggest you ask questions and participate (don't take over the class, LOL) hopefully you'll get an instructor who has financial experience that can relate the materials to real life instances and not just read the book.

That is one reason why I have never understood why investors are so afraid of going commercial other than a relatively small difference in the overall terms.

Indeed, especially when dealing with parties related to the tenant.

Have a pen handy when you hear of concepts that you don't understand and you can look them up here for a multitude of opinions about what is good or bad about just about everything REI related!

Over the past few months i've spent a long amount of time pouring over blogs, forums and books related to real estate investing.

Relatively cheap too.

If your doing rentals in Virginia, its relatively easy to evict a bad tenant.

A relative of mine owned a house for decades.

I'm a newbie, so I must admit I'm a bit ignorant on either schools of thought in relation to replacement value.Mike