First and foremost anyone who says "cash flow = rent - your PITI payment" either doesn't have a clue or is kidding you.5.

But anyway...Regarding being lazy, if preferring to spend time with my family and raising my kids instead of spending time working makes me lazy, then yes, I'm the laziest guy on the planet.Sure, I could do things like spend 26 hours in a car to look at two properties...but I'm lazy and would probably just spend $100 to have someone do it for me while I spent 26 hours having fun instead.

You certainly get excited and off track with assumptions Real Time, that's what you or was it FOX making the claim theat the WH watched the attack.....you have to be kidding.

Dude grew up dirt poor, with a mom who couldn't stand him, as a white kid in a black area of Detroit, and who was picked on so badly that he once spent 3 days in a coma after being attacked as a youngster on the playground.

The good thing about the books is that you might find one or two little tips in each book that make it totally worth reading.

That last part is an important clue to vetting the don't care properties from the ones that the owner just hasn't gotten around to working on (REO, rehabber, developer, etc.).Do you mail, door knock, hire kids on bicycles, etc.?

For those who are planning on the DIY garage floor here's a tip: If something gets onto that floor while you are working, you can have a not-so-nice result, and you can't really walk on the wet floor to remove that something.

Price pressure eventually spreads to the cheaper neighborhood, and the price gap closes to 0%-20%.I've seen this general scenario play out many times over the last 30 years in Denver.Once you own several homes in the cheap neighborhood, you can even try to help "tip" the neighborhood toward gentrification by improving or redeveloping your properties.New light rail lines tend to help a neighborhood's values.

Short of wining and dining the appraiser, anyone have any good tips to get the appraisal pushed past what's out there?

They are probably around 50 (given that their kids are grown up, done with college, and out in the world working), so the previous statement is not inconceivable, I've seen it before.The effect of the preceding data is that there are no previous landlords to contact, nor can I contact their employer... they *did* give references among their neighbors, who I'll call this weekend.