As for GFCI's, installing them is fairly easy and if you have any mechanical ability at all, you should be able to do it yourself, just make sure you turn the power off first.

You might say the non profit community offers a last chance to those who have responded to well placed, and compelling advertisements offer quick and easy solutions to problems whose solutions require the homeowner collect ALL the facts, then analyze the facts, arrive at a decision, then act on the decision.

drelly,Finding great deals is not easy.

They will do repairs on their own and generally are pretty easy to deal with.

Thanks for making it easy to get good real estate info!

In my experience properties with no mortgage a pretty easy to get to cash flow.Back in the day (when no approval assumptions were available) I used to get into those if I could do it CHEAP ENOUGH (ie; close to ZERO), knowing I was going to do a WRAP. all cash

It's fairly easy to make 12% in a good growth mutual fund and yet I see a lot of people working very hard on their rentals and they can't tell me what their rate of return is.

However, I do know that one disadvantage with these properties is that they are not as easy to sell as is the single family property.That's the second issue.That being said, any advice as to what to do with either the first or the second issue or, ideally, with both will be greatly appreciated?

LOLI'm a pretty trusting person, but a few miles of life have taught me to be skeptical of the easy buck.

They are easy to SELL and mistake the trappings of success for real success.However, I've read lots of books from the library and been offered many sets of tapes and books for almost nothing.