Being in the military has negatively affected my investment business  because i cannot devote as much time needed to grow the way i would like to.

I'm not a big fan of the term "hard money", because of the negative connotation.  

When you go to enter the deposit, click on the Split Transaction icon right there where you're doing the entry.On line 1, enter the full amount of the Security Deposit as a positive.On line 2, enter the amount of their fee as a negative to Property Management Expense (or whatever you're calling it).  

I wish that was the case, but the point about men being very confident about their (wrong) answers kind of negates that argument. 

Also there is a timing factor of getting in at an appropriate time as well as the negative cash flow.  

Everything way negative in cash flow. 

At least not in negative situations.

It "all these bargains" were actually sold at the Sheriff Sale, there would never be ANY REOs.The negatives are that you:1. 

Anything that you get from a Realtor that is "on market" is going to be priced at retail and often times will even negatively cash flow.

Speculators have all sorts of reasons/excuses to justify negative cash flow but it doesn't change the fact that by definition they are still only speculators.