If just lowering the price is the only real obstacle to getting the phone to ring, it appears that I should go to just above my "no profit" rock bottom price immediately or simply turn it over to an aggressive local real estate agent instead of investing a couple thousand in direct mail campaigns to either the local household community or cash buyer investors who have purchased more than two properties in the immediate zip code.

This isn't a grand slam, but a base hit to prove the concept and as a building block to attract more capital.Initial improvements included paint, porch repair, buying appliances, cleaning, misc. odd jobs.  

We have weekly meetings with study groups where we can go over what we learn and discuss with others concepts we find challenging to understand.Just wanted to put that out there, for what it's worth ...

Lawsuits over this have been battled out; a federal court decided that process being used by PGW was unconstitutional (owner's rights to due process being denied), but the concept of the owner having to foot the unpaid bill was not ruled unconstitutional (so a better process that does not deny due process could put the unpaid PGW bills back as the owner's obligation).

I found the self-directed IRA concept by accident.

Most of my adult life (I'm 52 years young) I have always wanted to know more about personal, multi-unit and commercial Real Estate from the perspective of learning how to generate income from low or no money investing, flipping and buy and hold Real Estate concepts.

I will have to look into the concept of the 1031 and segregation of assets as a strategy and really educate myself.

However, the generally spouted concept is the less owner occupied houses the lower the neighborhoods quality, the lower the tenants quality, the higher the turn over, and the higher the maintenance.

I may not get all of these facts correctly as I'm going off memory, but the concept is the same.  

Jay Raught considering I am new to the note investing concept, and my knowledge is not very vast at the moment it's hard to say.