A good broker will be worth their weight in gold.

Your parents could update to granite counters in kitchen and baths and remove the gold finishes here and there.

Learning to do this is vital for me, since I am really being forced out of my own market by the fact that it's so hot that everyone and their brother, from all over the world, is buying here.

I'm looking at it like, if you take the $140k, it has to earn you 12% or more to be a better deal than taking the cash flow.I am however, not nearly as experienced as most of the above posters, and am probably missing some vital part of the equation.

If the PM is good, they'll have no trouble supplying some names and numbers for you to call.If you can find a a good PM, they'll be worth their weight in gold.

But I think the gold rush is over and I feel like I'm rooting for scraps.The reason I settled on Atlanta was because I found good people there to work with, which business has taught me is generally more valuable than how a given deal looks on paper.

It was a gold mine.

he who has the gold rules"...I would suggest looking at his note and terms of the mortgage.

So I have been surfing through this gold mine of a website, and I apologize if I have duplicated some of the same posts as I am learning how to navigate this webpage.

You have to dig through a lot of dirt before you get to gold, just don't give up 3 feet before you make it to the gold :)