In spite of bond price charts, precious metals price charts, stock charts, housing charts, interest rates and consumer sentiment all screaming that a correction should already be underway, it could still take several weeks, months or even years before the bottom inevitably falls out.

You will find that tenants many times will have violations like this, and you will have to decide if you stick to principle that they're lying to you and you evict them over it (which will possibly be much more difficult to do than to evict for nonpayment), or if you just look the other way as long as they're not causing damage.

Is Amazon stock a good buy? 

Parts of Milwaukee have older housing stock, meaning at least 90 years old. 

If you don't want to invest in RE, there are other avenues that you can explore such as dividend stocks, mutual funds etc. which areLiquid when you want to pay off your mortgage.

I understand the principles behind the math, but still prefer to follow this path.I would appreciate links to forums, blogs, or books from investors who practice or promote strategies for REI with your own money without leveraging.Thanks.

I do not have any affiliation with Zilla, Trulia, etc, nor do I put much stock in their "Zestimates" (I think it's common and accepted knowledge that they can be, and often ARE, very inaccurate).

Now that my personal finances are in better shape, I plan to open a taxable brokerage account and use gains generated in the stock market as additional capital to invest in real estate.My primary interests include long term, buy and hold strategies; real estate financing methods; single family and small to medium multi-unit properties; and property management.

Hi All,Newbie here. 55 yr old planning to retire in 2 years, learning about real estate investing in order to have a source of steady inflation-proof cashflow (in addition to stock dividends) prior to taking social security at age 70 - so I don't need to sell stock investments.

Irrespective of the timeline by which you pay down principle, wouldn't you rather pay $42k instead of $75k on a NPV basis?