I never hold earnest money for the simple fact it has no benefit to me to do so only headaches. 

You'll slowly build passive income, equity, and most importantly, you'll learn how to be a landlord and perform simple repairs. 

Hi guys, I am loaded with seemingly simple questions like this, so I've just been asking them as I think of them.

But the sale of one residential property to be exchanged for another of an equal or higher price seems simple and straight forward.  

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With that said I have a few simple questions.1.

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As you can suspect, collecting on deficiency is not as simple or easy and will require additional expenses to create the judgement and then enforce the order.For all of these reasons and perhaps a couple more, second position mortgages and deeds of trust are more risky than a first lien. 

For all the above reasons, I started to examine "simple" notes.

I don't know if this high interest is due to the simple concept of SFH, the ongoing cash flow, the high demand of SFH in my area, etc.