There's something to be said for having a chip on your shoulder.

@Mark Dammeyer Yellow Letter can work, but buying them will take a nice chip out of your pocket.

Fish and... chips?

(Carrying a big negative cash flow on a vacant bldg/development project sucks ;)  So even investors in prime blue chip markets were at risk (like I was) due to leverage. 

Purchase price: $497,000 Cash invested: $174,000 6-unit in East Oak Lane How did you finance this deal?

@Chip Ferguson Thanks for the suggestion and I have listened to Michael Quarles podcast and I was following that advice and I still do with one change, if their lowest price is way higher than what I am willing to pay I have decided that I am still going to offer my amount anyways.  

It appears felker has a chip on his shoulder from him past.

If you don't own any stock, are you going to put $50K in a high risk IPO because of some potential return or are you going to start out with more blue chip stocks like Apple and then diversify in to riskier, higher yield stocks.

I have family in Cali (LA, Thousand Oaks, San Fran)Found a ton of videos of you on Youtube.

@Kevin Phu, you just missed our Thousand Oaks meeting.