I loves "house of cards", "Sherlock" (someone mentioned it a few timesin the last webinar...LOL) "Breaking bad", "The good wife" - can't believe it is finished...)

I ran out of cash and place the repairs on my credit card.

With the exception of skiing.Places like SF and NYC definitely win when factoring in motivated/interesting people per capita though :P  I tried really hard to not like it, but my 5 years here have been a blast, both personally and professionally.

Who has experience with a tenant calling saying this card is on your rental door?

No one wins except you usually.Study that deal a bit more.

But as things like this get as big as it does, you get the people who simply walk around handing out business cards.

I:e home equity or credit card.

I'm 19 and about to buy my first 2-4 unit apartment but haven't yet, however if I could of went back a few years with everything I've learned now just make sure you're always learning, reading, etc, don't spend your money on stupid things like cars and clothes, if you get a job and keep saving you should have money for a 5% down payment on a property by 18 or so, if you're going to college you can buy a 2-4 unit (duplex-4 plex) or a cheap house and rent out the other rooms, that can go in general too not just with college, and don't buy a brand new car, get at least 3 years old because a car loses 40 percent of its value over those years, you can get a very low mileage older car if you hunt for it, new cars are financial suicide to young people, ideally don't spend more than 10% of your income a vehicle per year, that may be hard depending on what you do, and invest every penny you can while maintaining a safety net (at least a couple thousand dollars to cover expenses, etc) that way you don't have to pay abhorrent credit card interest rates.etc

It's usually pretty close to a wash, or when I hold the rate constant it's like 20 basis points (to price, not to rate) or something trivial, coin toss which will win on any given day.I prefer to have my direct lender hat on to my broker hat when working on REI deals (not licensed in your state, don't actually bother PMing me) because your situations are always wonky and I need that direct telephone/IM/email line of communication to the assigned decision making underwriter so I can go over your net loss carryover, or weird Schedule C, or funky deposits, or whatever it is, with her and get it resolved in 5 minutes rather than over the course of 5 days of emailing back and forth through some intermediary. 

I gave them my business card and asked to give it to the people occupying the house.I revisited the property a few days later and seen the house was vacant and no dog. came back a few days after that and same situation.