It has slowed, but there are still people buying at the foreclosure auctions and reselling.  

Limp through the summer and get bids on the entire package in the winter when HVAC guys are slow.

Now that we have returned to a sense of normalcy and recovery, it is a great time to be a real estate investor.Despite a slow start this year, the 2015 real estate markets have been gaining momentum for the last 18 months (National Association of Realtors).

Here is my advice:1.Protect your money (do not turn it over to strangers to manage for you)2.Go slow (do not rush into making financial decisions)3.

I am fairly new to real estate investing as well but with the abundance of information from Bigger Pockets and networking with investors at the Charlotte REI; my learning curve has been accelerated.

They also tend to have slow appreciation..

I just took a rough DM seller lead call "I will kill you, kick your *$, etc" and wanted to increase my efforts rather than slow down.

You can paydown extra if you want, you can keep the high cash flow if you want and you will qualify for new loans easier if you get 30 year mortgages because your DTI will be lower.The interesting idea would be to see what kind of principal paydown it would take to accelerate a 30 year amo into a 15 year time period so you'd receive benefits of low DTI while still paying it off in same amount of time(obviously only beneficial for a small group of people).This all being said I keep rentals at 30 years and personal at 15...want to pay off my personal residence asap so if the unthinkable happens..major injury, death to wife or myself etc we'll be able to live in comfort on 1 income and keeping extras for kids futures.

I am taking the slow route and although I know I will get there I wish I could have quit my job yesterday lol. 

The theory was that "if at any time 5 years after the loan was accelerated" the case was dismissed, or dismissed and not refilled-the lender was barred from foreclosing.