This is the first step to making an offer. 

In practice, I think a lot of people for an incidental expense just throw it all into one property.

So I just received a message from a BP'er. They said they saw one of my devices.. somewhere...I wanted to share this with you all...Many of you do this for financial freedom. I would by lying if I said I wasn't..but f...

I don't know what took me so long to get on here...I am an CA licensed attorney practicing real estate law, estate planning, and immigration law.

I have done that for 15+ years, so 'red flag' is a bad way to describe a business practice that some people don't use (possibly out of ignorance) and for others is (practically) standard practice. 

Practically worry free. 

Would love to learn from you all and share some best practices.

Practically speaking, if you do CFD, just record it. 

Getting a realtor on your team is an important first step.

No loans of any kind involved so activities such as the following one are definitely NOT possible for me: step 1: get a loan, step 2: buy a RE where i can be as sure as possible i will get people to rent it and pay the monthly rent fees (plus utility bill fees) matching in total at least monthly cost of loan, step 3: before fully paying off the loan, announcing (why?