Dralan, while there is plenty of general information on BP, i will suggest you be very careful with the information you consume here or elsewhere.

Apparently, you have to click through to each thread again to make the alert disappear from the page....very time consuming.

E's (and ongoing monitoring), is time consuming and costly.

Time consuming?

Hello JonPlease tell us how you handle today’s problems with the Safe Act and consumer finance.

One great rule of thumb is the 50% rule. http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/17612-where-does-the-5-rule-come-from-This states that over time, all of your expenses (vacancy, property tax, management, repairs, CAPEX, insurance, advertising, etc, but not mortgage principle and interest) will consume roughly 50% of your gross rent.

Kinda hard to have a strong consumer economy when there is nothing being sold to generate the income to buy.

As it gets cheaper, with hard money at 8.5% - that's the interest rate on loans for apartment buildings, (California loans for investment, not consumer purposes) more people are using hard money lenders as a source for financing rental or investment properties.

I've done a fair amount of HUD bidding, and purchased three properties in 2013, so I know how time consuming the bidding process can be.Regards,Mark

Sherwood Forest, Indian Village and Rosedale Park would be my pick on fix and flips especially if you offered land contract terms with healthy down payments.