I just barely invested in my first 2 syndication deals this last month.

Bill when the crisis hit.. it was early on set in Detroit.. started before the rest of the country it had gain steamed but then as you know there was some real melt downs there were nice little neighborhoods with these brick homes were selling for peanuts 1k to 3k..most were stripped or barely habitable at that point.. guys were buying them for 1 to 3k never looking at them selling them to renters basically for 200k down and 400 a month 20 to 30k on land contracts as is.. folks would kind of move in.. strip the neighboring houses. to get these habitable these had about a 90% default rate in two years.. :)  you see the same in Texas in some markets preying on non English speaking.. buy a house for 10 or 15k sell it on contract for 50k without doing anything to it to a non English speaker on terms.there was a guy boasting about it on BP and he finally got ran off the site..  

"Hard Work"Have cursed God, when I had 1,000 bales of "perfect" hay bales that I picked up by myself with a pickup, till 3 am in the morning till I was all sweated out and could barely stand. 

I’ve started prepping now by reducing my expenses to the bare bone, paying off small bills, and saving cash.

You get a long term tenant in an LTR for a year and they do the bare minimum in keeping up the place. 

The codes are the bare minimum standards.

I live in a location where rentals are barely on the market before they are gone.

Continuing to plant grass seed and grass mats on bare ground.

I get so many leads from my VA's that I can barely keep up with it, so I haven't done a mailing to listed homes in a few months, so I've thought about getting my license before.

The only way to maximize profits is to increase rents to what the market will bare and up to the highest part of the curve possible.