- When they say that real estate investing is "easy"?

Also, I don't know about your area, but in NJ/NY it is pretty easy to track down an owner of an abandoned property for free (or very little cost) so I don't see why you should waste your money on a skip trace service.

The gurus will tell you it's easy - just load the contract up with out clauses.

I would at a minimum cut the PM. 1-4 homes is easy to take care of yourself, IMO.

Some good free books on Amazon are "Real-Estate made easy" by Brian Haskins "The Ultimate Real Estate Investing Blueprint" by Sean Terry "No Bs Real-Estate Investing" By Preston Ely and "Flipping Houses Exposed: 34 Weeks In The Life Of A Successful House Flipper" by Danny Johnson.

I do not favor one more than another they are both relatively easy to install (I have installed both kinds).

I have enjoyed all of Og Mandino's books.My favorite is Mission Success.Great books, easy reads, with success principles built into the stories.

It was a short sale with code enforcement issues with the city that took a lot of hours to resolve over the last few months and a lot of negotiations with the first and second lien holder to get it down to the current price (I guess a contract at 4.7% of the unpaid balance isn't the easiest thing to get them to swallow) so it wasn't just an easy just an easy purchase.

I've self-managed two properties total, but one was an easy-to-manage white collar condo type deal, and the other is still in my property--a friend, so no hassles there.I've never self-managed in TX, nor do I know the laws/in/outs, etc.

I forget by who, anyways it explained many of the variables of Economics in a very easy to read analogies.