The difference between a guy carrying 1 month PITI as reserves and 6 is day and night.

I found the forums lacking on evaluating growth investments alone (perhaps this is more about "investing" than speculation).Please also let me know how to get my basics down on RE investing - references to books, CDs, online tutorials, whatever you think might help.

I'll take a crack at it anyway1) Find who owns the property, often property records are online.

Couple this with only 3.5% down and a 3.5% interest rate, you can't really beat it.Anyways, in my initial search for FHA financing, I found it difficult to find an up-to-date accurate source for FHA information online.

I called VRM about 10 months ago, i was notified that the program was suspended....but due to be back online soon.

Then I'm usually back home to finish some administrative details, exercise in between and then off to city hall or county recorder's office (only one, the WORST one in customer service, isn't online - the other 3 that I use are all online).

I've driven past it and the lights were on at night and with no curtains, I can see inside and it seems to look really nice.A brand new constructed house for $25K.

Everytime I get a new home or tenant I just add it to the system and the tenant pays on line and it goes straight to my bank account.

What's keeping me up at night is that there is ZERO inventory in my hood: the San Francisco Bay Area, right now!

Hi Matt:Pull up your online amortization schedule.