Aside from contacting the military to help with the eviction, they may need to see if the military member is having health issues and needing help.

In fact in Texas colorado or cali 1% would be a wonderful deal on an investment property .there are several other formulas to gage a deal every investor should know .

We just had a terrible experience with an agent who was super unprofessional and just flat out lied about listing the place, several times.

I think I’m in agreement with several other folks in that I would love to hear an entire episode devoted to strategy #6, unless of course, being a far less experienced newbie, it’s already beeen covered.

Several days after the offer was accepted the owner learned from her lender that she is qualified for a Short Sale.

You have several interesting points.

As long as you have your health, family and the ability to make money you can ALWAYS start over.

I hesitate to call the current market a bubble - there's just too much up in the air to really see what's what, and while RE is a big part of the general health and status of the economy, there are a number of other factors that determine what / when / how the correction happens.The bigger they are, the harder they fall, so unless we (collectively as a society) really have our crap together (which we don't), when we eventually do go down I think it's gonna be a doozy. 

A few additional pros and cons of an FHA loan is that the appraiser has stricter guidelines, one of them being that they have to point out any health and safety hazard that are present and require them to be fixed prior to closing, which translates to potentially a riskier transaction for the seller.

My problem is that beggars can't be choosers and it doesn't seem like a smart move to wait several years to save my first large DP.