Talk to enough homeowners and you'll soon find someone willing to sell at a wholesale price, especially if the owner lives out of state.Driving for Dollars: The last method is to simply drive around and look for homes in disrepair... things like uncut grass, broken down cars in the driveway, or properties that could really use a fresh coat of paint.

The fed printed money trying to spark the economy and labeled it "quantitative easing".

In addition, when interest rates decrease in more favorable rates from the FEDS, there will be more buyers looking to diversify (buy).

Maybe the tenant gets a $50 per month credit for mowing the grass but isn't in the lease.

In the case of real estate, the income it doesn't produce adds to the expenses of taxes, utilities and upkeep making the liability even greater.The point about the debtor being "slave" to the creditor, while valid, discounts the idea of borrowing your equity out at x% and lending it back out at 2 times x or 3 times x: your debtor repays your lender and the spread between the two interest rates is income to you.The banksters make a fair part of their profit this way: they borrow from the Fed at 0.25% or so and lend that same money back out at anywhere from 3% (12 times what they pay, current mortgage loan interest rates) to 34.9% (120+ times what they pay, penalty rate on some credit cards).

Additionally, there threat of deflation because of the monetary easing policies of the Feds.  

The grass is likely not greener on the other side.I traveled to several states to check out properties between 2000-2004.  

I think you're being fed a line of BS.

The city has to go through almost 2 months of BS to make some stupid, lazy drug hoarders on one of our rental streets cut the freaking grass.

But to say that somehow anyone who is not rich is their own fault is the BS you are being fed by the system that wants you to remain blind.