Having this back ground I understand there are thousands of people out there that are probably in the same boat right now.

They also ran a hose from the faucet into a register, ruining the furnace in the process.

there are studies done that stadiums in fact ruin a city, not help it in the long run. there are 8 Lions games each year. people hang out and drink. the rest of the year it's like a ghost town. how is that helpful?

seriously guys, look into cheaper ways to buy. using the funds from a re-fi from one house to buy more than one new house is growth. growth is what you want to do. make your money work as hard for you as you can. finding houses that are dirt cheap is the answer. there are several ways to buy real estate that are nonconventional. several years ago, the federal government restricted the number of foreclosures a bank can put back onto the market. consequently, that forced the banks to hold onto the less than desireable foreclosures and market only the best that they have. that added to the carrying costs of the remaining houses that they could not market. finally, they had to make a decision; hold onto those houses until they could market them, or dump them in light of loosing the carrying costs. most banks chose the latter. so, now, you have thousands of houses that the banks just dumped back to the previous owners by filing a release of lein with the counties that they are in. legally, you have a house that the bank no longer has a claim on, and the previous owners either do not know they own it again or they don't want it. there is potential for a hell of a deal.i bought one for $2000 on a tuesday and sold it for $10,000 on thursday. i also bought one for $2250 and picked up the back taxes for $4000. that one i am holding onto to rehab and will be worth $50k when i am done. tax sales are a great place to pick up extraordinary deals too. your problem is NOT on your cash end, its on your buying end

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What is not common is these investors had purchased properties that were sold to them as turn key, cash flowing properties that they paid market+ prices for and when we visited these properties they were actually "shell properties" worth a couple thousand dollars.

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Having borrowed hundreds of thousand or even millions does not qualify.  

They don't want to sell off houses one by one, they will sell them by the thousands as part of a package to a large institutional buyer.