I thought I was being prudent getting an appraisal before I bought it and it was too high and I didnt realize it until after I tried to sell it.I recently had multiple offers on a house and the appraisal came in low when we went to do the loan.

However, I realize I will never get rich climbing the corporate ladder without luck and networks.

But now I'm realizing that there is also a benefit of letting a good property manager fill an empty property with good tenants.

"metrics").I'm holding all my rentals until the big money realizes/decides there isn't enough B market to go around.

Andrew, @Shaun Reilly gave you a suggestion without realizing it - Foundation.

Or they are so damn big they do not realize what they are doing. 

Not only that, but you'll have to get the lines of your letter spaced with NASA-like accuracy so that it looks like the words are written on the lines of the paper.More complicated than us new guys first realize, right?

So, I called that bank today and it seems they will sell me the note for cheap – a few thousand (I don’t think they want to own another REO property) What I am hoping to achieve is to have an interest in the property so that I can redeem it myself for the $35,001 plus interest and redemption fee.I realize no one is offering legal advice, and I am awaiting a call back from a property attorney.

We came up with the realization that since both of the bathrooms were rather small, especially the master (which used to be a jack-and-jill but I closed the other entrance off to make a master suite) that we could go a little bit more higher end because there wasn't much square footage.

I realize these May sound like common sense but at the time they just didn't seem that important.