Shoddy subcontractors, substituting poor quality materials, etc etc are commonplace.

The real problem is that the gurus go out and teach things that work some of the time as something that works all the time because it sells material, not because its how things should be done. 

Are people reading things on the internet with a grain of salt?

I have tried looking on the Internet google etc but still want help with the following question.If a house is listed on Zillow for example and says sold 65000 foreclosed to the lender, does this mean that the mortgage owed the lender that amount, or could it of been they owed a higher figure? 

This just means you'er here to educate and bring useful material to all members of the BP world.

Then there are materials , the mark up , good businessmen mark up their materials .

Account Closed , thanks for the feedback, I am seeing marketing materials from some syndicators promoting Atlanta apartment with pretty optimistic projection.  

Cook, a manager at a construction-materials firm.

However, he sold out at the meeting and he has a bunch of reading material on his website and audio on his pod-cast.Hope this helps.HAPPY REIing!!

Lincoln Block https://youtube.com/channel/UC1rTFljYP2WIfk8PXVMyqaAI have never heard of this building material before.