My concern is making some small error that would ruin the whole exchange. 

If your only spending a few thousand a year, don't expect discount below retail.  

Either option is likely to require extensive electrical work and thousands of dollars.  

But, with thogsands of members, you can count on the fact that if someone starts posting false information, the knowledgable investors on the site will certainly call them out.If you want to know what is good about the site, look around . . . it has attracted thousands of members, who keep coming back to network, make deals, learn, and find resources related to real estate investing.

maynard76,Since I can't afford the thousand dollars for her course, can you tell me some of the most important things you learned from it?

LOL Really i dont want to have to lose any money on the deal because it went south, but i dont want to ruin my reputation.

I had been intrigued by real estate as an asset class when working in Moscow in the early 90s, knowing many ex-pats who were making large fortunes in the arbitrage of being able to buy buildings for thousands of dollars, spend tens of thousands of dollars rehabbing them and then sell them for hundreds of thousands and millions to other ex-pats and the consulting firms they were working for.

With just the business side of it, it doesn't make sense to burn the bridge, not to mention the whole integrity issue.Would you like to spend thousands of dollars on marketing and hours upon hours of your time to get a deal and take it to some yahoo investor who decides to go around you because he found out that you're actually trying to make money on it?

In the four years I've been in business and with dozens of rentals and literally talking to thousands of applicants, I have NEVER had an applicant ask if anyone died in a property - NEVER.I think it's a non-issue.Mike

He has accumulated well over a thousand $ in lenses, maybe more – I do not know exactly, as this is not my world.