In order to reach a larger audience I've learned that getting the listing out on craigslist and other places is key.

Keep it simple.Never understood why someone has to go to a week long seminar to learn all sorts of investment strategies.

I firmly believe in having some sort of buffer between you and your tenants.

The 2% rule would tell you it would need to be priced at $240,000 to make money.Making one unit accessible might not be that much extra, unless you're talking elevators or that sort of thing.No numbers were attached.

That's tougher to sort out.

There has to be some sort of resource on the web that has been tracking this.

Sort of... bird-dogging is the idea of you finding quality investments and notifying investors about them.

I want to start leaving letters at abandoned or empty homes in an attempt to reach home owners and I was wondering if anybody that had applied this strategy had an example letter of this sort..I was thinking to just write to call me in case they are willing to sell, but then again, without a properly written letter, this might backfire as people might not understand my intend.. so before I write one of my own, I was hoping to hear some suggestions , so please share if you know anything about this topic.

Average sort of casual car, clean and neat.I'd wait until after the deal was done to let the neighbors know that I buy houses.

I later found out from other people that you were supposed to get an account and access to websites and all sorts of things.