I'm new here and reading the Bigger Pockets' Ultimate Beginner Guide.  The Guide mentions the article in my Title and mentions the article can be found on the Bigger Pockets website; although, I can't find it.  Any su...

I guess it's tempting to thing that such things are improbable, but my own house burned down 10 moths after I bought it, and were it not for my boyfriends' parents stepping in with an "emergency fund" things would have turned out differently for us.I bought an REO from an investor who didn't have enough of a cushion to get him through a couple of bad years, and I guess I don't want to be so maxed that I would fall into the same trap if things went awry.  

The whole turn key concept was born in LA and SF..

The heck with the cheese, let me out of the trap.

@Jeff Pollack  AS a Bay area born and raised investor... we always simply looked at rentals as forced savings and someone else would pay your mortgage... 

I don't think there are many on this forum who were even born then!

Most importantly, don’t get trapped into analysis paralysis.

I was born and raised in a little one-road-in, one-road out beachside community in Hawaii called Lanikai.

I reinvested something like $200,000 of quickly earned money back into more online marketing stuff which all fell flat on its face.July 2009 rolls around and my first daughter is born, I build the greatest desktop I have ever seen, and a really bad WordPress exploit hits the internet and I lose every single website overnight.

I was born and raised there for 19 years.