As Rich Weese pointed out, I've had 10 years worth of bad luck in just 1 or 2, so i should be good for the next 8 ;)Real Estate has produced more self made millionairs than any other "business" venture minus some dot com boom stuff, but that is unlikely to happen again, real estate has produced these people for 100's of years.

Well, my private investor has run into some financial problems and needs the $70k back, leaving me equity rich and cash poor.I'm trying to decide what the best route would be for me as far as a HELOC or equity loan is concerned.

Did some money lending, bought a couple of rentals.Sounds like you're coming to the realization that the promises of easy riches are false.

Hence, he joins a long list of real estate investing failures who go on to teaching newbies how to get rich using the methods that didn't work for them.

My top 3 are Rich, Jeff Brown and a tie between Jon and John.

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I do not agree with his "tax the rich" propaganda but I had separated that from his business analysis.

Rich, what exactly do you mean by that?

Thanks for the suggestions.I read somewhere that some people use skip tracing, but when I googled a couple companies it seems pretty expensive.C Rich - I'm using the list to mail to absentee owners.