Probably at least half the sellers I have met thus far I knew I couldn't put under contract for a variety of reasons but I went and met them anyway just to get experience talking with sellers and looking at houses. 

I'd much rather have 25 units making $400 a door than 50 units making half that.

House hacking is the easiest way to get into the rental market.Buy up to a 4 unit property with an FHA loan at 3.5% downpayment.

       The easiest thing to do is to call the Auctioneer or the Law Firm that posted the sale.

there is a great website that has nearly half million members many of which have a lot of experience... you should join.... i think it is called biggerpocket.com    :)     welcome aboard.  

If you have a disaster, Fema and insurers will write you a letter and tell you that your damage was a preexisting issue so you only will get half of replacement cost.

I shoot generally for 1% for my cash flow properties in my market (The 2% neighborhoods are too high risk for me) and my appreciation play properties might be about half a percent.

(I'm only half kidding with that comment)TL:DRI'd say if you're going to be hands on with management (at least until you get scale of operations), and plan to acquire multiple properties, student rentals can be a great way to generate income, assuming you purchase in high demand areas and know you're numbers and make filling them you're number 1 priority.

Sometimes banks are not the easiest to work with when you're buying REO.

Of all of the banks and government entities, HUD is by far the easiest and quickest to submit offers (it is NOT the quickest for everything else).