When I started, I wanted to make at least triple digit return on my cash and I did.

Make a low enough offer and odds are you come out OK, just play the odds like poker.

Just as I like digital books but can't shake off the desire of the tactile experience of the real thing.

I've also helped them with the business with everything from cutting the grass to buying supplies and making repairs with my father to digitizing their records.

Given the evolution of software to automate this, arguably collecting taxes in the digital age is very easy. 

So I've worked with my broker/manager for several years. I'm shocked that he has no website. I network all the time in my city (Not las vegas), everyone is priced out. But there's a city an hour away that I've investe...

The house has already appreciated at somewhere in the high 5-digits.

I'm 26 now, and currently travelling the world playing online poker for a living, looking to start investing in real estate more actively in the upcoming months.I've been investing in real estate on a very small scale since I was 19.  

I got started in real estate when interest rates were double digits…1980.

If you were to add inflation also to the equation, then after 30 years the very rationality of waiting that long then becomes a serious question.If 8.5% seems high for a conventional mortgage, mortgage rates in 1984 were in the 13% range (18% in 1981 and still in double digits by 1986).