I can't count the number of foreclosure sales I've attended that had short sales under agreement, short sale approved, just waiting to close and the bank slammed the door on it with a foreclosure.Because MA is a non-judicial foreclosure state and the banks are not required to disclose anything about the pending foreclosure, other than the public notice, it's nearly impossible for a short sale agent to know the status of a foreclosure and how much time they've got to get the deal done.

Most, if not all people who buy out of state and have a bad experience can eliminate or greatly reduce their bad experiences investing out of state by doing the following Don't buy in the roughest neighborhood in the urban core.

What I'm trying to say is to be very careful owning only 4 units a gentleman that has been buying apartments for about 25 years and owning about 5,000 units and is a multimillionaire has taught me a few things with his many videos on YouTube and being on with Josh and Brandon a couple times and doing many public speeches and predicting he will make about 150 million this year might qualify him as knowing what he's doing. 

The sale reduced our debt by a great deal, but I wish I'd kept the cash flowing rental now.  

So my wife and I live in a rental. We have rental insurance and car insurance with State Farm. 

I also have a rental property with State Farm and got them to consider my rental property for the multiple policy disco...

Bribing her with a donation to her church is only going to reduce how much you can pay her for the property so is likely to be counter productive to convincing her to sell at a lower price unless she is stupid.

For example, if you read the annual report of American Homes 4 Rent, the largest single family public REIT in the country, you will notice in the management discussion and analysis section that they mention they don't reach scale until they own hundreds or even thousands of units in one given city.

Also, reduced rates from subs, the education of getting licensed and the extra income potential of taking on some profitable side contracting work. 

No car.. don't bother.. unless you become a commercial agent that works in a certain sector with a large firm in a large urban area where you can manage walking or taking efficient public transit.. 

Account Closed the drugs was a joke... not sure why anyone would publicly announce they took drugs even if they did.