Its easy enough to cut a hole to get access to the attic.

And with a good tenant buyer that is willing to pay in a little extra per month toward the down payment, you can get them to work... and ultimately collect your profit on the backend, or on the second and third lease option tenants if that plays out.The clear advantage of going this way is... if you dont find a "GOOD" lease option buyer, you are not obligated to the sellers... just let the bank take it like they were going to anyway.Pre-foreclosure lists are easy to find, and because getting a short sale completed is a numbers game there are often many sellers in that niche that could not get the short sale done, and are going to walk... you can cut your teeth on those until you get your system fine tuned.On a side note... the other way to go is to get a mailing list of absentee owners from your county tax rolls, or realquest.com.

Remember, REI is the easy way to riches.I'm sure there's options I haven't even thought of, much less considered.all cash

It is possible, it's just not as easy.

Easy James.

When you have a small portfolio, these expenses don't happen often and it's easy to ignore them.

The shows make it sound soooo easy that any fool with some dough and credit thinks s/he can jump right into a flip, splash on some fresh paint and add shiney drawer pulls and make a fortune.I get bid out by these fools regularly and then watch those properties languish on the market for months at a time.

If they didn't, no one would venture forth.So, in other words, they B.S. people about how "easy" this business is.

If it's easy, buy another one and see what happens.

The supply/demand equation has changed, since the easy money that drove demand abnormally higher is gone.