Long story short, things went south and they had to make a change late on a Sunday night.

I have been reading a lot of success stories, and I wonder how they scale so fast, and what skills they have that I should learn. 

This is the story of my very first deal which happened 4 years ago in September of 2011.

Thanks to everyone who posted on this thread and shared their story.

So long story short, I'm a young entrepreneur at heart that has a passion in real estate.

The Starting Out forums can help you out , you'd read a lot of motivational stories how some members got started and got the ball rolling. 

The moral of the story is it not anywhere close to being simple eviction across the board.  

I'm getting ready to get a property under contract, it's a 12-unit run down, beat up...basically a complete rehab top to bottom.Here's the story: In 2005 it was sold for $320,000 then in 2011 for $85,000 for some reason (I'm thinking the neighborhood) the owner of the property in 2011 listed it at 50k and it sold in 2014 a few months later it was sold again for 23k.The current owner is very open to negotiating price and even at 23k its well below every comp I've seen for the area-there are apartment buildings literally on the same street that have sold for around $135,000 is there something I'm not seeing? 

Long story I won't go into. 

Getting started can certainly be frightening, and the challenge of getting a spouses approval is a story that's been shared many times.