@Colin Perry Is it a short sale you are trying to buy on auction.com?

Looking at long term trend lines I think we still have a 25-30% gap to fill in the next years and short of a black swan type event that will happen, because there is no way that supply can catch up with demand.

My first house ever purchased was a short sale that I picked up in June of 2012 for $135,000 that my wife and I lived in for about 3 years.

I have been thinking about buying a 2 family, renting in one unit and living in the other in the short term.

We've also put together some training events for short-term rentals.

That relatively short drive was rather illuminating; the neighborhood was pretty bad and the place needed much more than just a roof.

Just wondering if it’s allowed to view the inside of a short sale home before purchasing it?

Right now it’s break even for cash flow, but i see the clear path to increasing the rental value in a short amount of time to get where i want to be.

Long story short.... your weekly rent was likely not paying for your hosts cigarettes.

While there, watching the sunset over the ocean, brainstorm why you want to do real estate and which of the following below you want to do & where.Decide which kind of investor you want to be (SFR, Commercial, Land, Tax Liens, Passive, HML, Multi-Family, Notes, Fix & Flip, Buy & Hold, "Subject To", apartments, duplexes, assisted living, REOs, Foreclosures, Short Sales), etc.