Then if you have to take the home back later, you may be faced with much larger repairs than if you had maintained it all along.

As a young Real Estate broker (26 years old), I like to think there is a new wave of property managers taking over with a better level of technological expertise and business strategies that will help change the face of the business.Although I am not a Real Estate investor myself (yet), I am always interested if the right deal comes my way.Looking forward to being a member!

I figured there would be a higher return by face-to-face instead of mailings.

Not only can you get mud on your face you could lose money for someone, it happens, so responsibility for decisions is theirs, not mine.It forces them to think, my job is to calm the fears and inform as to general and prudent practice.Start telling someone to put 20K down and then they find they could have gotten it at 10K won't work very long, if it got to involved they might look to you for the errors of their ways too.Keep yourself out of the deal.......or get involved and partner and share the risk and reward, otherwise stay out of it. :)

I know this may be a little bit of a over kill but the second time around my goal was not to barely pass with a 76, but shoot for the 100.

Responding to someone without a face, is like speaking to a wall.

I understand there isn't any silver bullet, but I just want to set myself up with the systems to mitigate the challenges I think I'll face.

However on bare land most people do not carry an insurance policy.

I've only been investing for about 8 years, and some veterans can chime in on this if they want, but I feel like we should all be hustling to get as many of these bargain basement deals into the portfolio before the window of opportunity slams shut in our faces.

The next thing is to walk and talk, get from behind the computer and get out an meet people face to face and talk about RE, let them know what you do.