Bob may not be gaining that more a month in cashflow from the apartment building which seems to have vast amounts more of risk.

By at least getting them to their standards they are vastly increasing the pool of buyers, since many buyers can't buy a house and rehab to lender's standards.    

So far, the community here seems so vast and supportive.

Lots of meetings there and vast majority of them are free. 

The vast majority of the time it will NOT be.

And I will definitely check out the Boron book - I feel like I've kind of exhausted my library's offerings, and I'm looking for some new material.

I have read every book in the library I just need some local help picking out two properties under 100K in a not so bad area. 

There are a ton of variables so your answers can be vastly different as well.

The vast majority, 90%, are still here.

In many cases, someone had a specific personal question or wanted to trade emails, but not publically or requested a file to be sent to them and now we have to request to become collegues, wait for the acceptance and then PM.I understand your intention is to protect BP members from receiving unwanted PM messages and or spam via PM, but in my humble opinion, if that was happening (not sure it was), having the ability to "warn" the unsolicited PM'er or send a complaint to a moderator should suffice and prevent spamming, etc.Hope you go back to the prior as it was a great resource to many of us.I'm sure if a poll was taken, the vast majority would want the ability to send a PM to another from the threads only, not necessarily from a profile page.