One more thing, banks monitoring time is normally one year.

I know that written goals is an integral component of success it's just that I don't know exactly how to go about doing.I recently finished reading Think & Grow Rich and I want to create a goal sheet that I can review regularly.

There are real estate investment groups that meet regularly across the country if you need to find people to run deals by.And of course there are people who will give you free bad advice.

Connecting with a good property manager does not eliminate the work you must do but it should be easier for an owner to monitor a property manager than monitoring tenants.

If you play the Cashflow 101 game on a regular basis, it may help.

Although I quit my regular job for full time investing many years ago, it is always a treat to read the experiences of others and vicariously experience that elation all over again.Continues success to you.JP M.

The transaction was a regular sale, subject to payoff approval by Medicaid.

If you have a regular job and make more than $117K, you're not going to be paying the social security part on the rehabbing income anyway. 

I've been there 5 times :)  The funny thing is the regular monthly money you spend here can cover you there, including a modest hotel room.  

I used to buy them with cash and the do home equity loans on them to do the work, the process is much simpler on a HELOC than for a regular mortgage, or it was back in the day.If your credit score sucks you'll need to go private money.