Sit down with a calculator and do some basic math.

yepDon't know the age of your unit, but mine was a basic NG '03 model.Mine wouldn't let the pilot stay lit???

If you slapped that on the mortgage of the first property, the numbers now look like this:65000 x 0.4 x 0.088 =2,28865000 x 0.6 x 0.043 = 1,677For a total of 3,965, or an improvement of 585/yr.But if you used the 13,000 as the down payment on another property like the first, then instead of increasing your income by 585/yr, you'd increase it by 3,380.I'm at work, so I don't have my spreadsheets for checking my numbers and I may well have goofed something, but that's the basic gist.Hope this helps.

I found the forums lacking on evaluating growth investments alone (perhaps this is more about "investing" than speculation).Please also let me know how to get my basics down on RE investing - references to books, CDs, online tutorials, whatever you think might help.

One of the lots they paid over $300k for, the other is basically someones front yard.

Geoffrey,Basically, the broker is the one who has a relationship with the client (the buyer or seller).

He said it was 'basically evil'.

I then just spin up a quick website with the form in it and some basic text and images.

So I picked the "retirement" fund and basically let someone else manage it.I want to know everything there is to know about subject to, land contracts, land trusts, etc.

I have enough basic knowledge to know I can do this.