I have a current listing where I'm offering 3% to try to attract a little more interest.

When you hear people saying "using none of my own money" and other such dumb phrases, and the leveraging boys going on and on about how they are on their way to their first $10m, TV shows about flipping properties using your neurotic wife as a designer, or two guys one of which owns a sledgehammer, all redoing houses, and then flipping them for a (massive) profit - face it - the forum is going to attract nutters.And where's the qualification in all of this?

Travertine (in my opinion) is a very attractive material and provides that 'wow' factor when you go to sell. 

But, you could spend money maybe on the exterior, roof, car park to make it more attractive for a tenant.

Today is about failure and what went wrong.I have a quote on my visualization/goal board sitting next to me.

That's why the returns always look so good on low priced properties, the increased risk that comes with more drama at that end of the market makes it attractive if you have a strong stomach, thick skin and like roller coasters...Certainly crunch the numbers on your prospect properties, but also overlay things like safety, quality of local schools and overall appearance of the neighborhood, (the things that responsible people care about).  

To add though, just make sure you get the most education out of the "tuition" you just paid, and you do this by both learning to recover from the situation (in case it happens again) and more importantly asking yourself where things went wrong and what you could've done differently (to avoid having this happen again) ... possible answers to that question include:Investing in a better neighborhood that attracts higher quality tenants.Better tenant screening.

The reason a "subject to" existing financing is attractive is the no/low money down.

I want to attract professionals who wants to live near downtown, and this place is literally under 5 minutes to anywhere downtown, and also about 10-15 minutes to the university.

I've been seeing some attractive returns on flipping and would like to try it.