Found guilty in conspiring with 20 other traders and brokers to rig LIBOR to benefit his own trading positions, Tom Hayes was finally convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison by a U.K. judge.

The key in this business is to know how you can add value to any deal (have a property, have money, have trade skills, etc...) and capitalize on that to build your business and knowledge when you are starting out.  

From there I will be building my portfolio with other methods.

In this you would be wise to work with your accountant to use documentation to memorialize your intent to "hold the property for productive use in business trade or for investment".  

It could be a way of avoiding confrontation with the tenants, rather than the " I know a guy" method.

Is It both methods? 

@Jay Hinrichs happy to trade pearls.

I am looking forward to using this site to meet other investors and get tips and tricks of the trade.

In my (rather inexperienced) opinion, I think it's much like any trade (lawyers, insurance agents, CPA's, realtors, and so on) in REI - some are great:- Responsive- Call / email back quickly- Lots of detail/informationand so on.Whilst others are relatively useless to be gentle about it.I've seen both sides (who thought finding a decent (insert profession here - I've seen it with insurance, accounting, legal, etc.!)

To be frank, I am note broker by trade.