I remember when I first started in real estate my broker told me to focus on a specific product type to get experience and, as you eluded to, the more experience you get the more you can branch-out.

Heck, if they were $500, I'd still be praising your thoughts and meticulous detail you put into their creation.

If they are home, i want them to say good things... all of which should be true because I try my best to provide a good product and honest business.

Here are some great books that I highly recommend that I've read in the past year in no particular order: 1- The Magic of Thinking Big (the size of your belief = the size of your success) 2- The 4 Hour Week - Tim Ferriss (productivity and leveraging technology and 80/20 rule) 3- Eat that frog - Brian Tracy (productivity, focusing on 80/20 rule) 4- Lean Startup Method (bootstrapping and adaptive learning) 5- How to Win Friends and Influence People (classic on working with people) Enjoy.

But I got a couple of interesting questions for anyone who's reading this:What reading material can I pick up to learn the lingo.Is your investing method a product of the area you're living in or the method you've tried and just turned into your bread and butter?

The homeowner claimed the house in still in really good shape, the tenant has been good at paying rent and even proposed a lease option to buy, and the appliances were all new and installed upon creation of this property.From this, I wouldn't imagine maintenance would be too much of a problem; neither would major replacements or repairs.

However, I agree that the tone, at times, was somewhat anti-capitalist / anti-affordable housing investor.The need for our product, affordable housing, has never been greater.

Some agents are just pushing product and it will sell whether they call you back or not.

I recently received an email about one of his products on how to purchase REO properties from the bank with Bad Credit, No Money.

Here is what it says on the home page now.btw: Does anybody know of any other insurance product that was offering the same thing - and that wasn't some affiliate of Aon selling their product?