The qualifications to call yourself an investor or an agent are essentially the same, NONE.

Hello, there are resources on this site, www.biggerpockets.com which provides information on tenant screening, Tenant screening is an essential part of being a landlord.

So essentially, I should have ARV, possible cash flow, and rehab estimates?

I tend to use 40% of rent for expenses and just want to be above break even, essentially for the same reasons you state.

The problem with that is that the economy uses fractional reserve banking, which is essentially leveraging the entire economy.

But then it occurred to me that they had essentially prevented me from borrowing any more money because they probably don't have the money to lend.

Obviously any shareholders of these banks will be totally screwed and their shares will be essentially worth nothing.

Essentially you're choosing keywords that searchers can be typing in and if they type in a specific keyword, Google will display your site.It'll be too much information for one thread.

A DIL is essentially as bad as a foreclosure in my opinion and experience.

well, imagine that for pot. trust big companies would come up with some phenomenal product. it would blow away the crap that gets smuggled in from mexico and canada, and the stuff that a bunch of idiots with no real qualifications or knowledge of botany are churning out of their grow houses.check this out for example:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/03/27/2009-03-27_firefighter_sanitation_worker_arraigned_.htmldo you really think either of those idiot firefighters should be generating a product that people are going to essentially consume?