I have gotten about 25 properties just in the last 2 months from overseas investors that were sold garbage I mean garbage, and now are upside down 100k and 100s thousand. its all about your team, Must have a mutual beneficial  long term relationship.

Economics is garbage unless practiced by the few, the rigorous, and the hyper virtuous.

My credit is garbage (had to do bankruptcy last year) and I only have access to $10K (assuming I can roll my 401k into an SDIRA.

Maybe there's a detached 2 car garage that hasn't been used in years because the doors are broken and it's filled with garbage. 

They are going to profit from writing garbage loan modifications.

I didn't have good insight on the water/sewage or garbage for expenses.

You'll get garbage pro-formas but once you dig in you'll see they are pipe dreams.

For most of the homes the carpets alone were $3200 to $4900 plus two coats of paint on every wall and ceiling, replacing broken bathroom sinks, kitchen sinks, faucets, repairing air conditioners, replacing cracked times on roof 36 feet high, bringing in 4 to 8 tons of rocks to make the yards look nice, trimming trees, repairing sprinkler systems and the piping, replacing refrigerators, stoves, washing machines clothes dryers, water heaters, painting garage floors ceilings and walls, bringing in 20-yard trash bins to remove all the carpets, trees trimmings and trash left by tenants, replacing all the window blinds, door knobs that are broken and locks for the main door and locks for the garage door so the keys match, repairing garage door openers that are broke, repairing the garage door rollers and seals, painting the trim outside the house, replacing facia boards that are 36 feet high, replacing window screens and the screens on sliding doors, replacing entire windows just because tenants broke the window locks and they cannot be repaired, replacing kitchen counter tops that are destroyed, replacing all the kitchen doors and drawers because tenants destroyer the cabinets by hanging their wet laundry in the kitchen cabinet doors to dry. replacing garbage disposers, dishwashers and the list goes on and on.

The numbers on all those flip shows are garbage.

I did that for awhile, still do sometimes, but mostly now I just ignore the garbage and search for the nuggets allow people to have their own experience.Speaking of vetting though, I vet people’s opinions by looking at the post count to vote count ratio, I look at their profile, and I look at their references on their profile.