As an investor, the main concerns for me now are, is this place affordable for a family, is it clean, is the area desirable, how much can I rent it for?

I routinely pick up certain RT flights for 9K points, and those points can sometimes be earned with less than $2K in total spend.Play it right and the banks pay you to use their cards - I've done it for years.Slip up though an it'll cost you dearly.

One unit was a clean 1 bed 1 bath with long term tenants 3 years and the other, which i intended on moving into was a 3 bed 2 bath thrashed!

However, we are not sure what they are actually doing given the lack of routine maintenance.

It is the reason that people tend to 'cheat' first before cleanly breaking off an existing relationship and Then moving on.

Balance your raise against the amount of work it might take to clean and get new tenants in.

For example, when a tenant is moving out and they keep a clean neat place.

If the lender is willing to work with him, there are some other options that could clean this up.

I am currently learning all I can with wholesaling and I plan on doing this for a year while cleaning up my credit.

By 2008, many were being cleaned out and their whole portfolios of 40%, 60%, ... 100% complete houses lost to foreclosure.