I do mainly fix and flips these days, hit me up if you want to grab coffee, I have a westminster office I work out of a few days a week.

I do flips, tax liens etc where necessary, but my main focus is on buy, fix and hold.Being a landlord isn't easy if you don't do it right.

I guess my main thought is if I could break even or cash flow even a little bit, it would worth doing for appreciation and personal use.

Here up north, where it's a bit colder, the law requires landlords to heat to 68 degrees F if landlord supplies heat.

The main purpose of the REI matcher system is match properties (sellers) with buyers.

My main concern is liability (i.e. someone getting hurt and suing me etc.).

If the unoccupied units are very cold and there's a way to get power into them, it can be helpful to run a heat lamp on the main supply line where it comes into the unit.When you wrap the pipes, check the R-value of the product you're using and make sure you're using the one that provides the most protection.

Lynn, I invest in liens for return mainly.

My main concern and the catch is that the market for such a business is limited.

Ask and you shall receive- Was just on the Institutional Property Advisors - Marcus & Millichap Research call who shared this chart of the top and bottom 10 markets for 2014 completions forecast and the percent of current inventory that the new completions will represent: So for those 20 metros we can do a little math; dividing the number of completions by the completions as a % of inventory to get the size of the market and then match that against the number of permits from above to get a sense of what's coming in terms of new supply.