My only advice is make sure you are thinking with your investor mind instead of your consumer mind.

You don't sit on hold forever or wait hours for an email response, and you don't pay extra for customer service. 6) The electronic banking features eliminate the need to do things twice and are reasonably priced.7) The smart-phone integration is pretty good.

Sorry if i sound like Kiyosaki, but his message is true and should be consumed by more Americans.Gino

That which cannot go on forever will eventually end ... we are 8 years into a RE cycle that normally lasts 8-10 years.

@Jay Gill  Rural America has its plus's and minus's.. some markets are just so stagnet that the values are really quite low and you would need to be buying the note accordingly.If you take rural Indiana for instance were I have some experience  Kokomo, Marion, Muncie.generally a home in a lower end part of any of these towns if you take it back and its in average OREO shape those homes are worth under 10k to a wholesaler or flipper. and they can take forever to sell.so need some caution.you can get notes reproforming it seems logical.. although my personal experience dictates that its a temporary fix be it 6 months or 3 years but at some point in time your going to have to take the asset.It all comes down to pricing... and what you should pay for these...

I believe to counteract what should be healthy consumer hesitancy to buy a house (hesitancy in part due to student debt), banks have been offering unsustainable subprime mortgages. 

When raising rents, you can request additional funds to have your last month match up but you are not  allowed to request more for the security deposit (stays at original amount "forever").I am not a lawyer, but I hear you can submit a full letter (whatever its called) to fully terminate the lease and then you can restart a whole new lease having both the security and last month to match up...but its hearsay.Also, if you do increase last month, do you need to provide another letter stating the increase in the escrow account? 

So the hunt for land is time consuming and there are a lot of variables that go into it, for example;Utilities: Water, Power, SewerSize of the Lot and what you can built.City Codes,Most Flips are in and out in a couple of months, in ground up construction in to it for at least 9 to 12 months.

Finding a really good property manager is also time consuming.

How can people pay ever-increasing prices that exceed their income growth (buying or renting)? Why wouldn't they just build somewhere else? Before anyone hurls rocks at me!.. Here's the premise:

High-demand...