You may just have to lower your standards to be in line with what the market offers or move/ wait for a different market.

It gets easier in some ways as the loan gets bigger. 10-year balloon is standard.

What's the standard in New Orleans i could expect?

Have been reading the forums and books and learning about the various tyeps of investing.

The 2018 version of your book Alabama tax sales has been awesome.

I have been reading books and listening to the Bigger Pockets podcasts for roughly 8 months now.

I have been in the process of setting up my own business to do transactions under, and have been spending any of my free time reading books about real estate, setting up excel sheets, and getting to know my local neighborhoods better. 

And Hattie yes I have read Brandon’s book as well as many others and listened to almost all the podcast now.

Before you start investing, I would spending most of your time trying to learn.I spent over a year listening to the BP podcast, reading many books, and just learning as much as I could about investing before finally taking the plunge.

A slumlord describes the landlord who doesn't maintain the property up to building code and habitability standards, and who doesn't respond to tenant requests for service and maintenance.The location of the property, amount of rent collected, value of property, or income of the tenant is NOT what defines a slumlord.