@William Franklin While only reading books published since the credit crisis might be good if you were looking for something like How To Make A Million Dollars Overnight With No Money Down Flipping Houses* when it comes to apartment building investment there are many time tested principles which apply in any age.

The reality was, I'd get all these first-time investors who had been through some guru or mentor course, bought themselves a house to flip, tried to apply the "wisdom" they paid thousands for, and got pissed/depressed/suicidal when I had to tell them they had received ******** advice.

Give the show a listen and see if it applies to you!

The buyer even extorted my brother by threatening criminal prosecution for things that didn't even apply to my brother.The buyer scared my brother into signing a release document that ended the purchase contract.

They accept a % of the risks.So, they need to see if that concept applies to their casualty policy.

And say you get a nice bonus from work, and you want to apply it to paying off the loans...you can put that into the spreadsheet and it will auto-change the pay-off dates.

The grace period of the 2nd - 5th applies to the late fee only.

@Andrew S.And what your friend said also applies to boats, ski chalets, RV, luxury cars, atvs, snow mobiles, and a whole host of other "big boy toys" and big girl toys also.

I wish I had a multi unit to apply the concept to.

This is because two widely believed reasons for investors to do so are actually not true: 1) avoids the 30% IRS withholding tax--this still applies if you ever want to take money out of the United States at any point even through an LLC, and 2) limits litigious exposure.