Read The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Real Estate Investing by Brandon Turner and begin reading some books as suggested in this list of must readshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/04/14/best-real-estate-books/?

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Ultimately, it has to be in your name because it's assigned to the property and if a tenant doesn't pay, you are still responsible- the same is not true for electric and gas.

Why pay ~12% for hard money for a year or three years, go through the hassle of refinancing to conventional, and ultimately end up with a higher long-term rate after interest rates have risen?

Even when it's not directly price, it's almost always a form/function problem (which still ultimately means it's not worth what you're asking in it's present floor plan, design, use, etc. so it still ultimately boils down to price).

He promotes it so much on the Podcast I feel like I have to!

Ultimately, you might have to move and then offer on the property once the bank offers it for sale.

It came back on the market and my client offered a little more cash, but we she ultimately pulled the offer because of the level of work.

Last year, I had about 24K from W2 and I am about get a huge raise (around 200%) due to the promotion from years of work in the same company I was working for.

Apparently neither did the promoters.