They are sloppy, charge a bunch of extra fees and do a bare bones title search/commitment (which excludes unrecorded but active code enforcement/utlity liens).

We have guests much of the time back to back, and the cleaners barely have enough time to get the place cleaned and ready much less do an inventory - so there's no good way of knowing who ran off with the towel.

The city originally ordered the apartment be completely removed to the bare walls, but the expeditor who personally knew the assistant commissioner had the order rescinded, and the apartment converted to an office for my use.

It's interesting watching DSCR get more and more attractive over time, just by the mechanism of DSCR rates/fees/terms barely moving.... meanwhile, Fannie Mae seems to be doing her darndest to "price match" upwards to meet up with DSCR and fist bump.

I have the bare bones knowledge and some capital to work with. and would like to possible acquire a tax deed property this year and implement the BRRRR strategy, but I would prefer to do it with some guidance from someone who has experience.

We can sell our house and come away with around $500k and get rid of the debt and move back into our current rental and use the funds from the sale of our house to invest in 2-3 more rentals and the numbers work out to be making a profit instead of barely scrapping by.Now we just need to do some more number crunching to figure out our market and the best way to reinvest the 500k after we sell.We would like lower risk.

He speaks reasonable English but 25 years ago you could barely understand him.

That next couple barely made it through the year (divorce) so we bumped it again by $75/month just to get someone in for the winter.

Most of the books barely scratch the surface and are little more than an intro, not enough to actually invest in them. 

it does happen but its rare.the VAST majority of properties that actually go to sale are bare land. if there is a home on it and as long as it is not posted no tresspassing.. etc you can always just drive up to the door and talk to the owner.. nothing different than when folks door knock you.. for any other thing. like selling magazines  religous folks .. etc.