However, if you can bear the pitch and get to meet people, including potential partners, like-minded individuals and also private money lenders as well as some hard money lenders, the local REIAs are pretty good places to start out.

The problem with that is that it's easy to blow through your savings sending out all of these letters, and then give up before your efforts starts to bear any fruit.  

If checked Seller Financing and Terms: Seller shall finance $_______________. 00, Evidenced by a negotiable Promissory Note of Borrower, secured by a validpurchase money First Second Third, Mortgage or Deed of Trust on the Property and delivered by the Buyer to the Seller dated the date of closing bearing an annual interest rate of __________ percent.Interest to commence on __________ or _____ months following the close of escrow datePayments of $__________.00 will be due on the _____ day of each month.

That's half of the WBUH franchise and I'll throw in a cute teddy bear as a bonus.Seriously though why not create your own business instead of buying into someone else's business?

.), so please bear with me.

Simply stick a for rent sign in the yard and it draws attention and responses more easily than if the home is tucked away a few streets over.Ask about the longevity of the tenants to determine turnover in order to see if it has any bearing on the traffic mentioned.Lastly, my test when buying a property is to ask myself a simple question.....would I live there?

That a few phone calls to local home builders "may bear fruit" for you!

Yes, it is, but bear in mind two things.

I also, of course, did not want to add to my tax burden which at that time was already in the 30% bracket.Holding onto real estate just means you've decided to weather the bull and bear market of real estate. 

The eviction process has no bearing on your right to make repairs to the unit.