I'd recommend something within reasonable(whatever that means to you) driving distance but that doesn't mean you can't be wildly successful on the other side of the continent.

They probably sense your fear, just like a wild animal would, do not give them that satisfaction. 

Albert, folks here are real estate operators, but that doesn't sound as impressive as saying "I'm an investor" by any accepted business definition, they aren't, some wild justifications, too.

But, as long as we are on wild *ss tangents I'll admit you got me thinkin.

Crap happens, at least that old lady in the story is getting $116K less $6 & costs back.

the lady wants to sell her house so she can move out of state to take care of her parents. she has a mortgage in place for 175000 from 2005. her payments are 1800 a month which is about 21600 a year and 108000 paid on the mortgage over the 5 year period if you assume payments started in january. that leave 67000 left on the mortgage. her homes value is now between 214000 and 250000 after running comps. not many in the area. house is beautiful on 2.7 acres and tons of pics on zillow and having more emailed to me. sh said it was recently done over. how can i structure the deal so she can walk away from the closing table with money in her pocket so she can move by august?

While it's unlikely that you'll suffer a complete loss on a high portion of your properties, do you want to be left holding the bag if a wild-fire or mudslide wipes out 10 of your 30 properties?

Everybody, and I mean everyone gave me a hard. time.The guy at the DMVThe lady at the DMVOne of the barbers where I go get my hair cutThe wife of a close friend really gave me a hard time.

I'd tell my prospective buyers I was only including fixed costs since people often assign wildly different values to the variable expenses and I can't guess what numbers a person will use.

Hi ladies!