If they need to pay half security deposit up front and pay the rest in payments that is fine. 

@Sam Wilson  got it enjoy the rest of your CA  trip  next time stop by Portlandia   we have better wine  LOL..and of course weird people.Cirrus SR 22   I have to pay for the privilege.. 

@Jamie Spitale Yes, the lenders will have their maximum LTV (based on the purchase price at sale and based on their underwriting and appraisal at refinance) and then require you to provide the rest of the equity.  

And it's better than it would be in the stock market, which is why I'm here, and I'm guessing it's why the rest of you are here too.If I didn't care about risk I'd have just leveraged an S&P 500 ETF by 2x and called it a day.

Painting kitchen cabinets is included, but for the exterior only the front needs to be painted as the rest is vinyl siding. 

As far as the rest, it comes out of their security deposit at the end, simple as that.

And yes, I do not think you can own beachfront property but instead get a lease on the land instead in Baja (not sure about the rest of Mexico).

Say you can take that same $100,000 and use it to buy 5 properties (mortgaging the rest  or using other peoples money/seller financing- however you do it) and each of your properties is cashflowing $300 a month.

Our portfolio is around 350 units right now. we own about a 3rd of that, the rest we manage for others.

I would love to quit my job and do real estate full time. but it'll be another year or two before I can do that.I think it's unreasonable to expect a young person to decide what he/she wants to do for the rest pf their life when he/she has done nothing and experienced nothing.