You can pick them up from various online sites like Ebay, Amazon, Barns and Noble etc.

Yes, there are bad apples and those are the ones that deter everyone from being a landlord. 1.

The old barn had a 1920's vehicle in it with one side full of bullet holes & we discovered that the double lot was 800 ft deep.Here's the b4/aft of the main floor kitchen he did.On another we toured a C-B area 1920's home that had been in foreclosure for 7 years ($98k was owed).

Those areas will continue to grow with the huge tech companies up there, anchored by Apple's campus. 

Originally we were planning on building an approx 52 x 30, half double garage, half 4-stall barn.

It also gives you a more comparable bid, more of apple to apple bid, not apple to orange. you know how you shop for comps before you buy the house?

Originally posted by "REI":I started investing in real estate back when PCs were a new idea and the Mac was an internal project at Apple.

I would recommend focusing on the primary strategy, saving the rest for second and third bites at the apple once the relationship is established.

I bought and read every book I could get my hands on at Barnes and Noble when I started.

I have used an Option as a sort of last bite at the apple before, but I was still shooting for a cash or hard money sale.