We started out with no money as personal property right out of my undergraduate degree.

I received my undergraduate degree from Texas A&M (yes I'm an Aggie) in Landscape Architecture/Community Master Planning 1979, and in 2011 went back to get my masters at The University of Texas at Arlington in Landscape Architecture/Urban Design.  

We started out with no money as personal property right out of my undergraduate degree.

I'd love to hear some more opinions on these in the Portland metro area.My family thinks I'm nuts for wanting to be a landlord, and maybe I'll learn the hard way, but from what I'm learning you can take a lot of steps to mitigate the negative side to a degree.

And, there may be the fear of contacting someone and annoying them to the degree they get reported and get a boot up their tail on the site, like soliciting assistance, never know what another is thinking much less how mods see things, having to watch what you say.

I have full time employment but use real estate as a secondary source of income and to a certain degree I don't see myself becoming to busy with real estate that I can't make time for a 9 to 5 job, although I suppose there's always a certain part of me looking at how I can scale the business - and if it works out successfully, it would probably necessitate me making real estate a full time business.I don't think it was bad to generalize the categories of investors and it sure didn't seem to be meant negatively by any means.  

Michael, my feeling is that any valuation system that must only rely on subjective data can not be accurate in any area to the extent that it may be relied upon for investing purposes.If you were to appraise a property anywhere, then check some other source like Zillow and they were exactly the same, you'd need to test the probability of that happening again over many other samples before there would be and degree of certainty to bet my (or your) money on.

He was right to a certain degree, but I know that others have had success with little to no money spent.

Outside or above and beyond what we have listed here and to some degree even this list itself is subject to change and the file content really depends on the Seller and Buyer and is agreed in some fashion in the purchase contract.  

I think the struggle we all have to one degree or another is to find balance between the two.