The rehab will probably not be as high quality.In the complete rehab property it will probably end up being less of an investment overall and you will get a higher quality rehab.We have mostly gone with the full rehab properties, as we feel it is a better value in the long run.

Don't simply send payments to a seller, you need some servicing or escrow method to show payments were made as agreed.

You will learn what it is like to landlord, while having your rent paid by your tenants.If you've read anything on BP, you know the buy-and-hold method is not a get-rich-quick scheme.

You need to learn how to conduct your own title search.Look forward to spending much quality time at the recorder's office.

In order to find the homeowners, I have mainly used the method of "direct mail"... and well, lets just say its definitely a small -to-medium success ratio.

Silver has all the qualities of gold such as a hedge against inflation and on top of that the demand is increasing and the supply is shrinking.

At the meeting I found that the majority of people were new and/or simply not the kind of quality investor I could learn something from (ask me how I knew this and I'll explain).Without specifically naming the club meeting I went to (I will if there is legitimate interest beyond gossip), can anyone here recommend a good club in the GTA, where I can find specialists in:1.

You know you're an investors when:1) you bought the cat urine house and you're trying formulas and methods of applying deck and porch enamel on the floors inside yourself to prove to the painter he CAN get that smell out.2) your broker is reassigning a HELOC to one house instead of being attached to several to give you less than 10 mortgages on a loan.3) your lawyer says the title is messed up on the house you're buying and it's going to take $2000 to straighten it out and you go out and find a title insurance company to do the job instead for $150.00.

I don't know the quality of his work yet but anyone who would join the Chamber and attend meetings is less likely to be a crook I would think.

A couple of years of the method above might get you there.