The doing something you just got saddled with mediocre to bad debt and now it could keep you from owning a great property when it comes along.

People will tell you grades don’t matter and the people who typically say that have bad gradesIf you can maintain grades while working part time then I would get a part time job in real estate.Good books to read include many here on BP, including David Greene’s book, and Brandon turner books.A lot can change between junior year in college and a couple years after.

My bad, I thought the owner was doing only a piece of the downpayment not the whole note, so was outlining more conventional financing.

I just got approved on owner-occupied mortgage on a triplex and bought same type of hazardous/fire insurance. Unfortunately, the notified tenant refused to leave and I started the eviction process, which can easily ta...

In my experience, closing attorneys close on time about 50% of the time, and everybody sort of expects this bad performance from them. 

@Christopher BlancoSorry to hear things went bad with your GC.

The good, the bad, and the really ugly (like Morris Invest). 

All they will find in searching your credit history is bad news.

I paint the walls but I don' t replace the paneling with drywall.I rip out bad kitchen cabinets but I replace them with craigslist used onesI leave in old carpet if it is still in good shape but not a nice color. 

A vague foreboding that it could all go terribly wrong, that you never really know, that one day we could get a call that the whole building had gone up in smoke, or a giant sinkhole had opened underneath it, or a particularly bad windstorm had flattened it, or bad wiring caused one of the tenants to be electrocuted, or, or, or...We are all afraid of failure, and worst of all, failure right at the beginning of something, a failure that completely exposed our incompetence for all the unkind people we all know to laugh at behind our backs.