I get one low life after another with evictions, criminal histories, low income but thinks they can afford it (75% of income on rent), they are going to pay the landlord who evicted them from their first apartment three years ago back even though I have had all this time to do it and still haven't, he evicted them after their first month it wasn't their fault, I'm innocent, blah bla blah. 

Guys have been there for 10 years and she told me that she took battery out of smoke alarm because it goes off  when she is making grilled cheese :).

I know the safe route would have been to make sure passive income was a certain amount or that I had a certain dollar amount in reserves to cover things, but it's like putting a timeline on anything else in life... most times you look back years later and realize you never hit that goal and you never took the chance. 

.), but of course don't cut off the people who you value in your life. :) Good luck!

Make life easy:  One Schedule E per APN (tax appraisers parcel number).

Teaching is cool but I want more out of life.

I would recommend a mentor or doing JV with an experienced investor.Buy & Hold: Like everything in life it is what you put in, if you go in knowing its going to be a headache it will be.

Tons of life/safety issues & too many interior/exterior issues to list.

But I am who I am (and had the black widow spiders, rattle snakes, and large flying cockroaches - that we used to catch and fly on strings in our back yard to prove it) and although I do make apologies for it....I'm continuing through the course of life down the road I carved our

Is an initial 20-50k spread (a spread likely to decrease over time) worth your life and the lives of your family helping you out?