If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

See what I personally did in my comment below in #2! 

- Loan Type and Liability: Implications of personal vs.

They have a more modern view the marketplace than some of the other, more traditional outfits like MDS.When I was active in senior housing, I was the in-house feasibility study point person doing both the forensic analysis of the market and competition ultimately making the recommendation for go/no-go on a project.

What if one person wants to sell, if one person gets married, when repairs are needed or someone wants to do renos (for cosmetic reasons). 

Hi Gustavo, it really varries for each person.

Plus you can call them when they area bottle deep and ask for some personal referrals!

The average person can totally achieve financial independence easily with education, self-discipline, and consistency. 

So instead of paying the bank for a home equity line of credit on my first home and paying them interest, I was able to use a personal loan to myself via my employer 403b and pay myself back with interest. 

My personal and professional experience has been that they do not provide actual replacement costs in their evaluations.