I have mine set at 10% just to be safe.

So I kicked the habit - I stopped going to seminars and started to apply some of those ideas that were preached by speakers who were experts at extracting fees from me.I started to attend real estate auctions, studying the process - watching others make a lot of money - I decided to get a credit line - increase my credit card limits and started looking for properties (cheap- ugly buildings) in the neighborhood where real estate auctions were taking place - my primary goal at this time was to learn the market in the area where I wanted to control real estate - I would look at 50-60 houses (but made no offers - when agents would try to qualify me I just said "I have a small inheritance and will not need financing) - I kept a journal of the price per square foot,  comparing properties, and all comments made by sellers and agents (this helped me to find the seller dominate selling motive),  that was helpful - but I soon discovered that I was just looking for real estate in the conventional way  - I needed to do something else - so I started to look for owners of real estate who had problems (I applied Power Prospecting formulas) and at the same time studying creative real estate techniques from the old masters in the industry - became a member of the Washington Real Estate Exchange, hosted a real estate investor club and started to give mini creative financing seminars  while networking with those I wanted to emulate. 

How safe is property won from a Surplus auction (city vs state vs federal)?

However, I will say that when you have colleges providing "safe spaces" for people to be protected from opposing viewpoints, Play Doh and coloring books because the wrong candidate won an election and emergency counseling funds released for people who had to go the atrocity of seeing political graffiti written in chalk on the sidewalk (all of these and many more events like them have actually happened), I would say in general we are raising a generation weak, entitled brats.

Wouldn't it be safe for them to invest X amount of dollars and be able to make 8-10% CoCROI, plus have the equity in the property.

I could easily be wrong but with these issues I don't think I'd be able to get conventional financing so I was considering asking the seller if they'd be willing to finance so I can at least get in to the property and do the necessary upgrades to make it rent ready and safe.

Is it even safe to enter at this point?  

Hope you are having a happy and safe 4th of July!!

2) Would you say that's a safe investment?

Pewar can figure out a way to get dollars into classrooms, lower class sizes, improve Chicago's neighborhood high schools (or at least Lakeview HS) keep our parks clean and our streets safe without raising property taxes even higher.