Thanks again for the encouragement and I 'll see you around.......Rock on....

I'm guessing ill see about 8-9% for the next five years, wich is still very acceptable.

Ill throw in mine as well.Here is how I set up my team.

Last Night I attended my first local REI meeting and Paul Esajian was the speaker.He is one of the guys on “ Flip this house†( the New Haven team ) I stopped watching The show a few years back , It was so fake and set up , maybe its changed ill have to watch a few and see for myself, hears a link to some of the Controversy behind this program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_This_House_(TV_series)For the most part it was interesting, learned a thing or two, the ONE thing I really was interested in was in his rehab break down in cost , ( like mentioned above ) That really looked good and I would love to have that, for the price ,$1200 im still considering it.He also had an option on the 4 day workshop along with 2 of the courses for I think it was $2600 ?

Ill have to write up a overview after closing.... but it was put on a platter for me to sell.

They are all under 100 grand, so I could come up with about 30k myself, but I don’t think ill be able to get any financing because my job is in Canada in which I haven’t been working at for a while.

No buyer will buy a house for $250,000 if he can get the same thing for $230,000...regardless of what has happened in the past...unless they are ill-informed.In addition, be careful about "sold" data that a realtor gives you from MLS.

For now i'll just be goin with the flowww ill also be looking into subject-to and lease options happyandrew :D

im knew although i have been browsing for some time, ill give you a short history of myself before i explain what i would like to do, Im currently 22 and at the age of 21 i had saved approx 15k for my first home, I had read every investing/mortage/real estate book i could find, before i really started looking, threw family i was introduced to a very respected and succesful real estate broker who has several offices, so i thought it was wierd that he was wasting his time with such (small fish) but he helped me find a forclosure,i bought a 1800sqft house 3 bed 3 bath etc for 112k, it was the ugliest house in a super nice neighborhood.

will look into that, im very good with money and a little on the tight side, i dont like having debt, so even the thought of having multiple mortages out scares me, im thinkin of rehabing 1-2 a year and if the ball starts rolling ill start doing more and more, but i see what your saying paying cahs for everything would take a long long time, plus my fear is the cash i accumulate would always be in a race with appreciation of thee houses, thanks for the advice