Its more like 98/2 with an additional 5% saying they do stuff so they can get a piece of someone else's hard work while they have not done anything and live in their mom's basement.All that said there is value well over the cost for those who apply themselves to deriving the value. 

  $300K gets you $1250 a month or $15K per year.My mom sold her house and bought a less expensive one last year.

Mostly, you're seeing a lot of mom and pop investors buying up cheap Indy urban homes that are "cash flowable".

I have done demo work with a large excavator on my mom's farm a long time ago and it does not take much to turn a house into rubble - literally an hour.

There is a good reason why "tenants, toilets, and trash" is something a lot of mom and pop rental property investors/landlords/flippers are eager to move on from when they can!

From a mom and pop with one home to the largest corporation in the country with the same brush. 

Here’s how I built my network, the challenges I faced, and why I believe relationships are a cornerstone of real estate success.Finding My Support SystemWhen I first started in real estate, I was young, fresh out of college, and had just become a mom.

His own mom called him "crazy" for giving her 25K on mother's day, and to avoid taxes said it was all cash, when the IRS only allows 16K tax free.

While there are certainly opportunities for finding trades and deals in these areas, they’re often pursued by local, mom-and-pop operations.

It wasn't till i realized that my mom had been house hacking all her life that it really clicked for me.