@Ned Carey has a couple good blog posts on his experience with receivership but I was unable to determine the outcome of his efforts.This is an assignment deal and I haven't yet signed the assignment agreement.

Any owners live in it for the last couple of years?

Expect calls like "I saw you on BP, and I just have couple questions for you." 

I try to google “oil prices” a couple of times a week just to stay in the know of what’s going on.

I’m back in action with a couple of flips in and around the great Bay Area.

While I'm only about 2 years into my RE investing career, I've already been through a couple of paid events (only SFR flipping, not commercial multi-family yet) which certainly propelled my career forward but also included a whole lot of sitting through a bunch of 'Get Rich Quick' sales pitches to buy even more educational products.

I can give you a couple names that actually gave me a real shot to do this, otherwise, I was underwhelmed by what I could get as cash out - think 40-50% of market, or in one case, 50% of their bulk sale value.

So that takes me to today....I have approached a couple of builders on possibly partnering on new construction specs.

I had a guy spray the tub , It is goung on 11 years with 2 young boys , a couple scratches but a great job

As a lot of others have mentioned, the multifamily has tightened up over the past couple years.