Of course, I am in California, but I save tens of thousands of dollars over a 10-year period because now I don't have to pay for water, pay a gardener, or pay thousands of dollars to remove trees.The next thing we do is we usually paint the entire outside of the apartment building to make the place look fresh and then you won't have to paint it again for 20+ years.

However Waco, Tex is sprinting into mf shortage, and it is outside of the box that will shut down again if deemed necessary alleviating any worry of no pay/no eviction, entry barrier is slightly less if you keep an ear to the ground on anything selling.

The other advantage of doing a credit check is we allow those tenants to pay monthly and we get payment outside a platform to avoid fees.

Outside of Agency and bank debt (which typically limit you to 10 investment assets per account), our private bank loans are "asset based", thus no DTI, no limit to the number of properties that you can own. 

I stayed away from houses close to busy roads and railroad tracks.I did this in the evenings, usually after work, so there were rare circumstances where I skipped over a house that I could have looked at closer (unless it was a definite write-down) if someone was standing outside of their home or doing something.

Some of the lots would be wiped out for a community garden context every maybe ten spaces...Another model: Thinking about 20 minutes outside of cities could also be developed from land if utilities can be lined up for the land. 

., I was thinking while I was typing that there might be some places (outside of where I normally operate) that might do it differently. 

There are deals out there you just must go outside your comfort zone to capitalize on them. 

In my opinion money is as cheap and easy to come by now (and as insignificant to boot) as it has been at any point in history (outside of the textbook hyperinflation cases). 

I love NJ and everything it has to offer, but I would feel unfulfilled if I never lived outside of the Tri-State area.2) Stepping outside my comfort zone * This is similar to the above bullet point.