I started, as a teenager, in fast food.

When I moved here a few years ago, I wanted to be as close to the mountains as possible for faster trips up the hill (as fast as you can go on I-70, haha). 

If you have a 10 unit building and most tenants are drug addicts, then you have bigger problems than the 50% rule.It's not a hard and fast rule as you know, it's just something to give you a guideline in your initial impression of the property.

You'll burn through that 50 grand so fast and be disappointed even faster.

The Fed has everything to do with driving this "upturn" with stuffing the marketplace so full of hot money that the institutions have no choice but to dispose of it as fast as possible -- which then messes up our signals because it looks like permanent prosperity is here.

Hello and welcome... easy fast and cheap... you cant do all three.

in AZ there is no hard fast rule.    

With that being said I'm looking for an experienced investor who is willing to share their knowledge, time, and experience to help fast track me into the world of real estate investing in return for something of equal value in their eyes.

find out how would you pay for them if you got a deal,how fast would you close, are you paying cash, how much can you afford plus all the leg work that @Crystal Smith  mentioned 

Keith, not that Bill G really needs my support, but in his defense, your initial question does read like you are trying to pull a fast one on the bank.