I gave her all of the tools and training needed, put her in touch with my cma expert to give her resale values, my contractor to verify rehab budgets and my realtor key to tour the properties on her own.

My neighbor who claims to be a "finance expert" told me last spring that by September, the market would be flooded.

Today, shes still there with her daughters and she is happy as ever, in her eyes, its still her home and I have had maybe $300 in expenses since I bought it and it helped me get into buying other homes.Oddly enough I have acquired several other homes under unique scenarios like this one and it has all been triggered by talking and helping others with their financial situation.My greatest concern is that I don't want to be the guy who invests in the stock market for the first time, makes money on his first investment and then thinks he's an expert.

Also, I know that a lot of the experts don't like providing in unit W/D, but where I am, apartments in these neighborhoods always provide laundry.

JScott-I don't have to be an expert on this stuff to realize that liberal driven ideas are crazy.

First, I'm certainly no expert on macroeconomics, buts that's never stopped me from giving my opinion

Our local CFA society had an expert on China come in and give a lecture several months ago.

Ummm, I'm not an expert on CO detectors and I hate to dis a firefighter, but CO detectors use an electro-chemical or solid-state sensor that shouldn't be affected by dust, at least not within the realm of my understanding.

But I have not made a decision so I figured I would post all this up and see what the experts say.

I'm mo expert, I hope this helps.