From a homeowner standpoint, you are at the advantage of a willingness to pay closer to retail but a disadvantage because you will have financing and contingencies.Your best bet is to look at properties that have just gone from pending to active (fell out of escrow), those over 90 days DOM (days on market), or just stay away from REO's all together.

National statistics reveal that foreclosures fell by one percent year-over-year in April 2014, which is almost four years in a row that foreclosure activity has fallen.

The closing fell through and they were asking for highest and best.

If I turned down deals that would have profits of 400 per month per house with no money down (regardless if its seller financing or thru hard money buying), I would only have about 3 or 4 houses instead of 19.That is my exact target number for a good deal.And I typically have to finance the thing twice to do it (hard money and then the perm loan).The fact is if you're allocating more than 400 a month per house toward vacancies and repairs, then you're going to have a real tough time ever getting into investing in the real world.And the fact that he's picking up 3 in one fell swoop is even better.

If I had someone that could finance me at 70% LTV all day, I would have about 40 homes right now instead of 17.I'd give my left arm for a LOC at a bank of about 500k just so I could take down 6 or 7 houses in one fell swoop without having to beg all my local banks for a loan for each one like I'm doing today. :-)I don't see duplexes appreciating like sfh's either.

I'm a first time home buyer and recently was attempting to purchase a home through a short sale (it fell through due to structural damage).

After that, I will have a nice monthly check for 17 years.This deal fell into my lap, but I would like to find more like it.

., we have had an issue with a prostitute (always a different guy there when she paid cash rent, hmmm...), have had some DV incidents at our places, and a neighboring unit drug dealing, but my husband and I work closely with the police.

When the market stalled, he got stuck with the properties, which then fell in value, wiping out whatever equity he had put in, which was everything he had, leaving him with the remaining mortgages.

My investors are flexible in their needs its up to me really.I own 2 commercial (mom pop) rental and 1 residential.My knowledge is residential just fell into commercial.