For instance if you calculate 10% appreciation per year in real estate and 10% gain on a stock over 10 years, your total return in real estate is 500% compared to 100% in the stock market.

I was told the reason evictions can take months is that landlords will attempt to do evictions on their own, and forget to cross a few t's and dot a few i's, or otherwise not follow the law properly.Although several hundred dollars seems extreme compared to $30 or so on your own, an experienced eviction attorney can get the job done quickly and relatively painlessly.

Our remodeling peer group had to agree to have a standardized chart of accounts in order to compare the many members performance levels.

Make sure you aren't comparing apples to oranges such as the rents including utilities or some other concessions.

A vacant unit is a thing of beauty compared to a unit filled with pus-bags (I would've used the term 'scumbags' but MikeOH already trademarked it).

Compare that to buying 50 properties with the numbers I talked about.

It's not much to brag about compared to some of the other success stories I've heard.

Find your niche and grow it.The possibilities are more numerous and more rewarding than when Microsft and Apple were created.Some things won't change, family, honesty, integrity, the need for food shleler and clothing....everything else is a wild card.What could we do with a billion dollars each and the same willingness to share that we are displaying here, now?

When you compare the cost per door for a multi-family with the price of a single family home.. in some areas there is not much difference.

I forget where, but someone I read about suggested we just suspend the income tax for a year.It would cost about the same as any bailout might, and man, it sure would reward the people who work hard and keep this economy going.