Additionally, you are the common link between all roomers - each has a lease with you and no {social} contract with one another - and, as a consequence, you will be sucked into more roommate issues;3) You will want to bake the use of a cleaning service into your budgeting numbers ... where the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, living room, etc are common spaces, it is quite likely no-one will clean them properly;4) Our experience has been that a rooming house works best if you, or someone you explicitly trust and/or who also has skin in the game, resides in the property.  

You can check their social media profiles to get a better sense of their character.

Has anyone used HomeAdNet to manage social media and listings?

See if you can purchase the HOA lien and then foreclose subject to the 1st, and HELOC. you may be able to skip trace the borrower and get their social sec (if you legally can), pull there credit and see the balances.. is the HELOC has a 250 max, you know where that is unless it's in default.Check to makes sure there aren't any senior liens, or "super liens" like property tax.Also, evaluate the BK risk

I agree, don't get so tied up in social or other activities in school that deters from the education.

My main mission for this trip was to scout out the environment, Realtors,  property management firms etc.

For the predator mind set, the approach is to make money from  an owner's equity by playing on factors unrelated to the property itself, such as foreclosure, tax issues, death in a family, excessive holding periods of time on the market, some social or financial matter forcing or influencing a sale.

Don't be fooled that because the podcasts are free that the information is not more valuable than anything on the marketplace - it's just that it's BP's mission statement for everyone to be able to learn in a free or low cost way.Happy investing and I hope if you're new that I will have the opportunity to hear you on a future BP podcast!

@Elke Cardella  I do inside the city not surrounding areas but I have heard many of the lower social economic class are moving out of the city to Owings Mills.

IRA's, Social Security, Rental Income all play a role.