However, I can tell you there are more properties on the market and, at least here in Orlando, we are seeing sellers becoming more motivated, so keep looking and make your agent dig a littler deeper for you!

Keep digging and see what fits you and your goals best. 

Often landlords don't have clean books to look at so do your own digging for cash flow numbers.

This will be my first investment so I'm really digging in to creating connections in the lending area. 

If the home is personal property (not attached to land), then you'll have to do a little bit more digging around. 

Why not buy a piece of land outside the city, for cheap, hand dig a septic, bore a well, and bring in electric, then drag the mobile home out there.

The way things are going now, I would advise you to dig deep into it cause creative financing will keep us rolling through hard times. 

For example, new sponsors doing their first deal - that's a no for me.Googling real estate syndication red flags can turn up quite a few good options for you, I'd recommend digging in that way.

I did and started buying my first few stocks, learned a very valuable lesson about NEVER panic selling and acting on emotion, and eventually realizing that it was more fitting for my strategy to simply open a Roth IRA with them and essentially dollar cost average contributions into several index funds to fill it up every year.I continued to keep digging, and eventually found real estate.

They're very high level screening criteria to determine whether an investment is likely to cash flow or not, but the real key is to dig deeper.