But I don't feel great about having an early sense that things were going to blow up-it was a horrible global meltdown and like they said in the movie the Big Short, suicides rise significantly with each increase in the unemployment rate.  

Now people say "oh man those were the days, wow that was a great time to invest" yeah NOW people say that but in 2010-12 all I heard from people was how horrible it was to be investing, the worst time ever, that I needed to wait for the market to "get back to normal" and all the fear speak that your saying and so many others are saying right now just like back then. 

The other point to make is if investing in real estate is so horrible, then how come it consistently ranks in the top 5 industries with the most millionaires?

When your income stream (eg tenants) dries up, you are left servicing the debt on your own, and this is where it goes horribly wrong.

It's work still of course, but it isn't horribly complicated to do the simple things.

As far as houses with horrible additions, I typically offer less for those to account for the costs of removal of the addition and the loss of square footage on the final price.I would recommend:1.

We did not and we had two horrible prop.

Yes, I’ll still have an emergency account in a separate bank in the early years, but this WL thing is all part of a larger strategy – which is to fund my own life, have money access TODAY, protect this money, and leave legacy money to future generations.So, the true number is that I’m paying 26k of my own cash, to get 17,500 in immediate cash value for year one… that looks horrible at first glance to anyone with or without a calculator… but this will be the absolutely worst year from the first glance view.  

:Starting in 2011 when DH went on sabbatical from his horrible day job, I started to read this forum, fat wallet's property forum, the MMM real estate forum and I even bought a couple of property investing books. 

My reading comprehension is horrible so the podcast have given me a channel to take in information that I otherwise would never have known.