I'm in research mode and am planning to make my first purchase in 2016.Lots of the training and success stories on the internet are based on USA investors and properties.

So I offered $250k for the three family and with multiple bids I ended up at $260k, the numbers still made sense for me.I survived attorney review and am now under contract.

@Anson Young What happened to the lady and her surviving cats?

Yes I have.A little know fact is in Fulton county there is a law on the books where the water liens survive foreclosure.Last time I dealt with the Atlanta Watershed division and the city of Atlanta Attorney.

Calling Owners in PCBFirst time investors in Panama City beach area and experiencing slow month in august and it isn’t even the colder months yet, how do you guys manage during winter months? Our PM has postings up fo...

I absolutely loved the process but also realized that this model is not sustainable if I'm managing everything by myself while holding onto a day job. 

Learn from my mistakes, and do what I did to generate the cash first so that I can pay off my debts and survive.

As previously stated, if the occupant has a legitimate lease (not saying they do or do not), the lease survives the foreclosure in its entirety.

If you value your marriage and you know that your marriage cannot survive the stress of real estate investing and rehabbing a place and having to go through all the potential pitfalls, then I would save your marriage because money isn’t as important as family.

I lucked into it, most duplexes in that neighborhood have been bulldozed to build 5000 square foot monsters, but somehow this one survived the bull-doze-pacalypse (for now...muhaha).