@AndrewJohnson Yes I can definitely see how some bases would be difficult to assess, and how being part of that community could help me have a bigger understanding of the individual situations.

I have worked with a number of CRE-space competing businesses such as a wine/liquor distributor who have found it more difficult to find commercial space since the MJ community has aggressively snatched up most of the competing space.

On balance, I'm still a huge fan of Memphis Invest.

I feel that that it is more difficult to sell/buy a house with a section 8 Tenant.

Hey BP, I recently started a discussion called "Looking for feedback on my next move", and have since been giving more thought to obtaining a HELOC or Home Equity Loan as my "no or low money strategy".Here is the scenario: I had my realtor run an analysis of some local comps, and she believes my primary would appraise at $272K, and my loan balance is about $226K, so equity = 272-226 = $46K (approximately).

If you are just looking to purchase and hold as an investor, then having no money and no credit are two things that make it very difficult to acquire property.

I think the online course would have been more difficult if I had no prior real estate exposure. 

Difficult to believe that out of 500 offers you have not been able to close a deal.

My firm also allowed me to take a loan of up-to 50% of my 401K balance.

The 2 current occupants are CHA so another concern of mine is that if I lose them I don't know how difficult it is to get quality tenants.