I will continued to try to help people and that may occasionally mean giving advice people don't want to hear.

I have lived in Santo Domingo DR, San Juan PR, Atlanta, Raleigh, Jupiter/North Palm Beach/Palm Beach Gardens and as get ready to retire, I think the parameters to locate do change with age.You want excellent medical care / good access to transportation / airport w/ cheap fares/ mountains and lakes and occasional beach.

Is this an everyday or every month deal, maybe not, but will deals like this pass my way occasionally in a $350k market, i have to believe they will and if i dont believe they will I'll never see it and wont have the guts to even make the offer.

I concentrate on buying properties in NW Denver suburbs (Arvada, Westminster, Thornton, Northglenn, and Broomfield), but occasionally find houses in Boulder County/Longmont areas.Most of my deals over the last three years were REOs, but those recently dropped of the face of the earth (or at least in Denver).

If they're later than that and don't call, he will not be there....unless there are others there at the same time.We schedule as many showings as possible for the same day/time, to minimize the number of times our contractor has to go to the property.Even with the best process, there will be occasional no-shows who confirmed.

I used a realtor for both my previous properties, but listings seem few at the moment and I need to learn how to approach each potential buy independently to avoid dishing out potential profit unnecessarily.

People get assaulted and shot in the neighborhood occasionally, but this happens at 2am and alcohol is normally involved.

Occasionally a small one {typically owned by a non-investor} might make it to a wholesaler or agent, but I would be instantly wary of any building being brought to us in this manner as it would be unlikely to be a good deal.

My goals are to own rental properties preferably multi family's and do some flips occasionally.

Throw in an occasional roof, water heater, furnace and $900 for a 3 bed 1 bath house seems like the bargain of the century.