Gurus will continue their scams and taking people for a ride as long as the "give me now without any effort types" are still out there!

Only those who are genius at selling the “Dream”.Use great caution and approach the Marketer’s who are pitching their latest & greatest  tips, and trick-pony rides!

I have heard of contractors out there who will ride the deposit out and as soon as it gets low they focus their efforts on the next job that gives them a good size deposit and let the other ones go on the back burner.

But when you put hard-pay debt in place on properties, then you can run into trouble if the unexpected happens - i.e. big cap-ex, falling rental rates (yes rents can go DOWN), increased vacancy (for any number of reasons, including functional obsolescence, crime, population and employment shifts etc) or other issues that affect the financial performance of the property.if you own the property outright (no leverage), then you can either ride these things out or go borrow the money to fix specific issues.

The steak might not be ready for a year or two, which suggests that buyers who come in now have prospects of riding a wave of appreciation.Prices in Racine and Kenosha for quality SFR's currently seem to be inflated by about 10%.

It may be more beneficial to ride out the HELOC if possible, making the payments on the HELOC with the current rent payments.

Get involved with your local real estate investors meetup group, find someone that is doing what you want to do and try to add value to them in some form or fashion and learn by doing.

I don't see how this is a good solution for you.these tenants have had an easy ride for a long time and should be grateful for that.

But they have expressed that the idea of selling it and "riding off into the sunset" would be a pure bliss scenario for them.

I was riding with a lyft driver this morning and the driver happens to be a retail REA.