I would recommend listening to the BiggerPockets podcast, reading the guides and blogs, or even checking out some of the books they offer there.  

Hard money is something too scary for me to even consider. 

Personally, I've been investing more than 50 years and never looked at the demographics for a neighborhood one time because I always felt that you need more personal knowledge about the neighborhood e.g. whether it is blue-collar working people, whether it infested with gangbangers, what the ability to increase rents is, etc. and the only way to get a good feeling and understanding is to personally visit the neighborhoods in the daytime, evenings and on weekends because weekends and nighttime is when the bad people come out like cockroaches.

Great agent and even better person.

Good Evening,I'm thinking of joining Partner Driven.

Somehow I feel the even after so much of effort, it is difficult to put a system in place and have a reliable and workable model for long distance real estate investing.

As I have been reading a lot of terrible experiences and stories about landlords getting burned due to tenants simply taking their softness for granted and especially taking advantage of a lot of elderly homeowners to live in the places for free and in some cases even filing lawsuits against landlords to simply make money out of them.

Bought @214,900Down: $4,400Down assistance: 10k Georgia Dream Mortgage: $5,550Rent per room: $600 water/electric includedWifi/Garbage separate: $35 each already split between tenants

my buyers on my new builds even get sewer scopes I personally would never buy a home without one..  

Best,Julie Muse So in the case where im in for 150K on initial investment + renovations and I pull out the 75% value to give me 150K and use that to pay off the initial investment + Renovations im technically break even in that case, but my real profit is the 50K equity left on the property?