I 100% see where one would think such, but, for most part it doesn't work out that way. 

I prescreen over the phone before we meet and you get to see the home so I weed out a lot of people before we even meet but there have been a few families I really liked and was routing for that did not work out. 

After a while I think you'll start to get an idea whether it's going to work out or not.

, you may find it easier to do distance investing vs in the same state.I have three doors locally (single fam and a single fam we turned to a duplex), but ultimately my husband and I are more focused on the long distance investing as it's hard to make numbers make sense out here in Utah.That said, there's amazing real estate groups and meetups out here, and if you do want to buy local, getting connected with those groups will be the best way to hear how we make deals work out here, or killer deals that are hitting the market or that might be off market deals.Best of luck to you as you start out on your real estate investing path, we're all here rooting for you!

I don't know the marketing strategies that would best suit your requirements but some DD on your part may work out.

I hope things work out, and I'm sorry this happened to you. 

It's like a failed investment or, I guess, a loan default, but there are reasons the investment didn't work out. 

That would all work out fine but......I got that "real estate bug" again. 

He would really like the property because he just bought the property next-door and put a townhome on it and his family is living there and he wants more of his family to live on this property so it would work out pretty well for him :) that’s probably why he’s so willing to lock in the deal right now.

You will never find this kind of book on the best seller's list because the majority of people have not been in school for years if not decades, therefore, the math is going to be challenging even though it doesn't go beyond 7th Grade Math.I also gave examples of how to work out the IRR in this Posting: Understanding IRR Calculations in Frank Gallinelli's bookIf you can get past the first 3 chapters, you will get a great understanding of the IRR.There continues to be others that are posting in this very thread that really need to read that book and try to work out the example that was given in the Posting Thread I linked.When someone starts talking to me about Investing, I usually ask them a question to see if I should walk away from the conversation.It normally goes like this:Hey, a friend of mine put in $1k into an Investment 10 years ago.