A wonderful article, that reminds me of a few family members.

Besides reading ever single article every day in every business journal is there a place that keeps track of these kind of things?

If institutional investors purchase these properties, they will have huge problems with scaling an operation to renovate these and if they sell them off one by one, they will most assuredly be selling to investors that are not aware of the conditions of the properties they are buying.Here is an article from HousingWire just yesterday, that we were a source for, pointing out the problems with large scale REO to Rental sales.http://www.housingwire.com/news/morgan-stanley-calls-rehabilitation-vital-reo-rental-success?

We have thousands of discussions on the rental business, hundreds of articles between our Articles directory, member blogs, and BiggerPockets Blog.Dig around a little . . . good luck!

It is very simple and BP makes it very easy for you to do.For example: A recent article by Chris Clothier. http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/07/18/are-appraisers-part-of-the-problem-with-slow-housing-price-recovery/#comment-107417 Can look like this: A recent article by Chris Clorthier.Short version[ url=http://www.whateverwebsiteyouwant] Text that people can click.[ /url]Just remove the space before url in both the first "url tag" and the ending "url tag".

J, I am so glad to see this thread because after reading Brandon's article about investors who go bankrupt, I was thinking about coming here to ask about mistakes.  

They are both great at learning the fundamentals.Also - here's a couple articles you might enjoy:The 21 Best Real Estate Investing Books Ever How to Rent Your House: The Definitive Step by Step GuideHow to Be a Landlord: Ten Tips for SuccessOh - and don't forget to set up your Keyword Alerts!

I have been reading through some articles on this site.

I look forward to becoming a larger part of this community and have already benefited tremendously from the articles and posts on this site.

The following article is courtesy of Zillow.com and Wordsmith.