Section 8 tenants could loose their access to their funding (at least in Tx during our ownership interval) if they caused problems, we had very little trouble.

I will be gong to grad. school but also was interested in getting my real estate license for another source of income and access to the MLS.

Find an agent with MLS access, and they can get you whatever information is available, when it becomes available.

There are risks that don’t occur with a retail purchase, mainly in access for determining the true condition of the property (and therefore setting your make ready budget).

Do you have access to the MLS directly?

Apparently they weren't able to access the basement when they did the appraisal.

I would also like to include that to get my 8 non-foreclosure comps, the radius was expanded from .5 miles to 1.25 miles and required going back 4 months of recent sales instead of 2.

I was wonderingstarting as a bird dog should i get my real estate license to have access to the mls for comps and expired listings.

But, oh, how times have changed.You have two incredible gifts at your disposal: time; and access to more resources and knowledge than any individual in all of history.As my old high school coach used to say right before a game: "Boys, the biscuits are on the table."

I have access to loan information and see a huge group of people that have been able to hold on to their McMansion's and BMW's to this point.