It's always nice to have someone with *no fiscal interest* to tell you about a bad deal/area/neighborhood.

Like massive cookie cutter subdivisions.

We also remove every dishwasher and never had a tenant complain.But, you have a lot of great suggestions for others to follow and save a massive amount of money.

If they fail to do their job, they will get slapped with massive fines.  

But, typically I will call around 7-8 brokers which gives me a massive reach of loan options.

Action+Action=Massive Action

Fact of the matter is you WILL have $500k after 5 yrs of investing with a dayjob and a good bank relationship...so beware of blowing you load on one massive, high value, high interest, 5 yr balloon purchase...I buy where it makes "cents", not where I can show off the building)Just because this guy will sell to you doesn't mean that it's a good deal...still the cash flow looks pretty basic on the first glance.If you are putting down $30k that should answer the bank question pretty well...it's all individual...I buy my houses in Toledo on a line of credit (so I can buy 15 foreclosed $20k houses and there aren't any appraisals or bank discussions required...I could buy a boat or cruise with the money if I was stupid enough to choose to do that).

Rather than charge massive interest rates we have them sign an agreement that they will follow the plan or voluntarily vacate.

Sounds like they are being fiscally responsible.

Is it possible to make a living off lien certificates without a massive starting fund (tens of thousands rather than hundreds of thousands)?