:lol: Forgive the long windedness but I feel it's important not to scare people too much especially since this is such a simple easy business to do.I have never done anything in my life that was so easy as investing in real estate.

Being a landlord isn't as easy as "put down little money", collect rent, get rich.

Water line is relatively easy to repair/replace.

Direct mail marketing is both easy to implement and scalable, meaning that you can send just a few mailings or a very many, and your responses will be proportional.

In California, as with most states, setting up your LLC is a pretty easy job.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics makes it easy to track month to month changes in total nonfarm employment growth in a given market, as well as growth in what they call the supersectors - 11 more or less industry specific categories.There's a lot more to consider, but simply looking at those two things will help you begin to sort markets out.I agree with avoiding RE agents for the most part; we've had much more success talking to good commercial brokers in town about what's going on.

But here is the issue and the lesson learnt......wiring money into Vietnam is easy ‘cos they want the USD but getting it out is a whole different story......almost impossible.

However my HELOC has been cut by $100k, so that isn’t as easy as it used to be.

I have done some great, very easy deals, and one of my clients is now using the approach with great success.

They may have more up to date into about the property.Pretty easy for an owner to rip out everything they can when they get foreclosed on.