He's selling for health reasons mainly, but also cause he's just tired of it.

What goes down generally will bounce back, but that area would scare me away.

Does the fact the first home is a 2/1 scare most investors off since its a smaller group of people that might be interested ?

Common sense needs to prevail when a property is in that bad of an area and that much underwater with that much damage.It's not worth the health of your marriage and your families needs as that property might not ever recover to a break even point to get rid of it.

If you have a health issue or another opportunity presents itself, the money is there to switch gears and keep moving forward.

I almost bought their material because I was a bit scared trying to jump into real estate.

I'm definitely hesitant to do many buy and holds in a small market because I don't trust the long term economic health of a small town.

That scares me to death, and was thinking that maybe I can ease into it and do it part time.

They are looking for things that are health and wellness problems(heat, running water, functional kitchen, lead paint) and that there are no big expenses looming in the next couple years.

Recently, I have been spending anywhere from 5-7 hours per day reading RE books, to watching videos on YouTube and most recently... reading forums on BP...But today I came across a site that spoke about the " Death of Real Estate Investing".I have this feeling that some of the webinar may be legitimate, and the other just scare tactics.