Thanks guys,Thats a lot to take in.Basicaly I'm in this together with her.I've moved back home because she is unable to keep up with it physically and it cost her too much to pay someone else to do the work.So now all she does is the bookwork.I am running everything else.I am currently living in one of her houses so I guess she actually has eleven rentals.We are planning on expanding the business.I'm looking at some houses to buy and either flip or rent out if they don't sell.I've been a carpenter for 20 years and can pretty much handle any kind of repair/remodel.I'm not to sharpon the business side of things.So I will probaly be posting a lot more questions.

Search around and you’ll see that this is a well discussed topic here.Even if you don’t have enough money to buy, you might have enough to loan or partner, which is yet another way make money in real estate without necessarily owning or managing the physical assets.Jeff

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Originally posted by Kanku Livae:Note: In tax liens and tax deed investing, there are only two outcomesActually, there is a much more common third outcome; some newbie investor thinks they're going to 'get rich quick' down at the tax lien sale, checks the physical address, bids on it, wins, then finds out they should have check the APN because the physical addresses are notoriously wrong and instead of that 3 bed 2 bath house they thought they were getting, they purchased some garbage lot with a public utility easement right down the middle.

Possible offers to the sellerOffer#1 I avrgd the total of all three to $84200.00 x.65 = 54,000 - 10,000 (repairs) = 44,730 - $5,000 (my fee)= $39,730.00Offer#2 Avrg $84,200.00 -$30k = 24,200.00-10000.00(repairs)= 14200.00-3000(my fee)= $11,200.00 What I would like to know is since I have told the owner the most I could offer him for the house is 23k (which I haven't physically been inside yet to look at) how can I make a different lower offer to him creatively?

If they will finance that, that would be best.Your estate attorney I'd bet can do this for you.

Nice one by St. luke's for around 100K rents around 1600 i bet.

You have great writing skills - you should start a landlord blog - I bet you've got dozens of stories.BTW, I just saw that Forbes list the other day - yep, Stockton was still on it lol!

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Unless you're buying in downtown SLC I think 3/2 houses are your best bet.