This is a great website/blog/podcast that has helped in my investing education!

This is the "burned out landlord" approach where you can pick up several properties at a time... or perhaps their whole portfolio at a discount, and they are likely to understand what you are looking to do so there is less to educate the sellers on.Hope this helps... good luck!

However, you need to become educated on finding a tenant, the Section 8 contract, lease contracts, etc.

We all go to the same trade shows, use alot of the same vendors, swap employees, sit together at educational seminars, etc.

This kind of leverage is not for the faint of heart, but if you're in it to win it, you have to play big.

But the best school anyone can go to is the school of hard knocks.3) This comes from my education at HKU (hard knocks university) It is better to practice on rental property than your own property...

The requirements for a real estate salesperson license in Pennsylvania include being at least 18 years of age and having successfully completed four credits, or 60 hours, of approved real estate education.

Found a bright, educated, solid-employed, newly-married Mormon to rent the upper level.

My family didn't understand the concept of leverage and the construction industry took a dump.

I was wondering ( I have not done a short sale but am in the education stage) if a REI could get with the seller who is in foreclosure, help them to work out a forebearance or repayment plan or loan modification, with the idea that the REI would then take over the loan Sub-to, pay the seller some kind of fee, get them moved out, and then you have yourself a house to either hold or later refi, wholesale or sell on a rent to own.