One was a guy that wanted to rent a place "immediately" (always a red flag) because he discovered "black mold" in a house he was buying and is planning to sue the previous owner.

I believe they expected the market to continue indefinitely.

True, and never trying is failing in my book.All the fear factors you mentioned above are the same common ones which stop many potential RE investors.Just one more of my favorites:The greatest mistake in life you can make is to continuously be afraid you will make one.

I was looking up the contractor RGC Builders, Inc. and noticed that they advertise on their website that they have insurance and workers comp, but when I looked up the contractor on the Palm Beach Contracotrs Certification webpage I discovered that RGC Builders, Inc does not have either.

If banks continue on this path of restraining business access to capital and credit, companies cannot grow, expand and hire, putting additional strains on the economy.

My advice, as someone who discovered BP almost a year ago as has been "picking everyone's brain" since, is to do exactly that.

We discovered that a much quicker way to exit the rat race was to add an IPW to our portfolio.

I want to get a part time job working in the real estate world, and continue my part time education.

In fact I discovered that around the globe with a gazillion different sites that Google only indexes less than 1% of the sites in the whole freaking world.

Our plan was to continue, buying properties with transitional 15% deposit route but by then market changed and our lenders became very restrictive on further lending on existing investment properties.