@Shawn Clark  I know your asking John.. but I think that is what he is saying.. that if you have a scheme and your scheme is to tie up properties and then advertise them or contracts and make a assignment fee on hud  or out side of escrow that that is brokering without a license according to JohnI know in Oregon you can't sell any real estate you don't own.. one of my Vendors got in serious trouble he put a for sale sign in the yard and wanted to flip the contract and he got wrung up.. 5k of attorney fee's and 5k fine and cease and deisist and a lot of stress..

Stress-free.It doesn't  all have to go against debt or all be invested.

@Karen T.

Market speculation is just plain stressful for me and I can honestly say if we were sitting around and "waiting for the correction" so we could buy "cheap deals", we would have missed out on so much opportunity!

I did all the expenses and everything to a T.

If it’s low t can go well, if it’s higher it can be bad.If this is in Memphis I can offer some advice.

Everyone got a big laugh out of how the property line ran right down the middle of the largest room in the place.My friend and the owner both got paid off by the auction company.This was stressful for me but it would have been much worse if I was the person that had broken into the wrong property or the person that had done the auction. 

@Larry T., @Neil GoradiaGuys, thank you for your words of encouragement and for putting it in perspective!

As long as the PM has crossed all the T's and dotted all the I's an eviction should go pretty smoothly (assuming a landlord friendly state).I would ask the PM how often they have to go through the eviction process (if it seems like a lot then it may be best to find a different PM) and how much it tends to cost.

I want to alleviate the stress of investing a little off of my mom and dad so in response I started to try to learn about investing, sometimes the principles just don't hit home though.