There will always be good deals - the skill is in not only having the confidence to know and to trust that, but also to recognise the deal that is good for you and then to be able to go after it not have someone else's great deal go after you.I hope that helps, sorry to quote Epictetus at you I got a bit carried away but those Greeks knew a thing or two :)

There's this weed that grows wild in Greece that the Greeks make a tea of that we drink as a cure-all.

It's always the old Italian landlords pulling this sort of thing, like it's in their DNA.We Greeks have never engaged in shoddy building or repair practices, never, ever, ever, down from the classical age to modernity!

There are a few Greeks and Greek-Americans here.

I think seeing residential real estate, especially handyman fixer-upper properties, as an investment is very different when you come from certain immigrant cultures that have histories of doing this: as my wife is Russian and I am Greek with a significant personal and family history in this work, it wasn't so difficult.But in general, when I am convinced that something is worthwhile and I think my wife should look at it, I give her a manageable amount of material and ask her to look at it.

I think six or seven more years and my wife and I are gone, Matt, watching Greek sunsets.

Call up your local Greek Orthodox church and ask to have the priest come over and do a blessing.

Raftis and Szabo mean the same thing in Greek and Hungarian. 

If any of it is "greek" to you, I suggest reading “Insider Secrets to Financing Your Real Estate Investments" by Frank Gallinelli, which is a very good intro to the process of evaluating and buying larger properties.

Searching through the MLS listings, my eye is constantly diverted away from searching for profitable properties to admire a Second Empire Victorian with a beautiful Mansard roof, a stately Greek Revival, or the sleek lines of a Mid Century Modern.