I will not be able to tend to any properties during baseball season so I don't think renting out properties is realistic.

She won't make any money off the house and the banks tend to only go for it when they are far behind getting close to foreclosure.  

My rental fridges, while nice, tend to be around $300-500. 

And, even the more "cache" companies are not always what they're made out to be (but they do tend to pay well).In many STEM fields, If you aren't truly passionate about the subject, it will be difficult to put in the amount of time and energy that it takes to become skilled enough to compete on the job market with the people who are that passionate.

The guru's will like to tell you otherwise, but for the most part the kind of people I see that get started investing in real estate and have success tend to be people that either have a career established or they have a house with some equity.

The only thing this nut job has is a lease, but  there is an exchange for lodging that I can only hope was clearly spelled out.

"Original" would tend to mean origination which there is only one Mortgagee, the lender.  

For my buying criteria, I tend to stick with neighborhoods I feel comfortable working in - there are some investors that buy on the fringe and/or war zones.

Your headline is (to my recolection) almost verbatum to the last topic.In a nut shell, everyone had a different opinion.

One day, two boys filled up a bucketful ofnuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts."