It is possible to cash flow on your area, but its tough and you have to be patient.

My response would be that, for my safety, I need to know exactly who I'm meeting at the apartment.

But you aren't there yet.Be patient and diligent to learn more first.

When purchasing performing notes at a discount, you can easily see double digit yields and pick and choose your safety zones.

They claim they are having trouble with getting permission and scheduling with the other tenants in gaining entrance into their units.My tenant and I have been communicating with the property manager back and forth for a month now just to be told "we are working on it and to just be patient."

Hell yes.Be long term goal oriented, patient and it will pay off.If you have to pay a guy in a clown suit near the steps of the courthouse on auction day holding a sign reading, "Let me Buy your Winning Bid for a Quick Profit!!!"

But the decision is not merely one of expected value; very possibly financial losses may be more painful than financial gains, making the decision for those people one of ultra safety and hence ultimately a lower net worth than those whose decision process is less "emotional".I see the risk of inflation must greater right now than the risk of deflation, hence I am in the process of strategically "leveraging up" on my real estate holdings.

Still patiently waiting for my daughter to be older.With respect to investing in San Jose, it was never known for cashflow.

Be ready to be patient.

Look Beyond Your NoseWhen I got out of high school, I went to work for a construction company driving an extremely large belly-dump at an earth dam project for a new lake.Once a week there was a mandatory safety meeting.