. - you should also explore owner finance deals.

Oh well, at least we got a few days out of town and wrote it all off.

James Tobin, I see E-Myth often at the thrift stores around town so if you feel like "hunting" a little bit, you can save a few bucks to put towards your REI.

Go to the Planning and Building Depts. in your town and get whatever handouts they have, and get a fee chart.Sometimes you need to get past the "theory of how to do real estate investing" and actually get out there and see how it's done.

So instead of struggling to pick up rent or allowing them to be late because I'm out of town, I switched to the bank method.But I will accomodate as needed.

I have been reading non stop for awhile now and also out looking at properties in my town.

I just go to one of the real estate auction houses in town.

Also, the buyer is out of town, so what is the safest way to receive payment... have the funds wired to my bank account?

Just need to make sure I can get comfortable with being out of town.

So I just got back from a VERY productive meeting with an out-of-town landlord who's tenants just moved out.