The areas I am in are working class areas, no burned out vacant houses or gangs or anything like that. 

Combine that with the fact that younger consumers are spending less on retail purchases and more on things like travel, and eating out.The vacancy, home owner rates, tell me it is a good time to be a real estate investor.The DOW plunging tells me maybe I should consider buying the dip....and I am in fact adding energy stocks and mlp's.

I didn't burn any bridges with the original company because I never know when I might have to call them back. 

You've already put in time and energy and have a potential deal, why would you give up that time spent?  

Ultimately, the time and energy I was putting in to learning and analysis of my ad campaigns was distracting me from learning more about real estate and developing my DM campaign.

To make a very long story extremely short: I assisted a friend with the purchase of her first home a few years ago and of course now, am being burned, after circumstances led her / her family to multiple late payments and eventually missed payments, which ultimately turned into foreclosure.We have been in process of trying to execute a short sale on the home for about two years now with no luck..

I'd love to connect and chat about the biggest concerns or burning questions you have as you prepare to self-manage.

If you have serious money to burn for us, you could go to court and get the definition of “potential tenant,” as opposed to “tenants or prospective tenants” sorted out for us since Dolben did state that a landlord may pass some reasonable costs of processing applications and other expenses incidental to the review of "potential tenants" but not to "tenants or prospective tenants" since case after case after case (Mellor v.

Hey Albert,Just to introduce myself I'm a college student in the process of getting my real estate license here in Phoenix.I think higher end rentals, especially SFHs are harder to keep tenants in because higher income people usually have the money, time, and energy to go where they want to go, when ever they want to go there.

Once burned twice shy, I guess.