Well, I think I was 20 when that and I was heavily studying it until some crazy girlfriend I had burned it over the stove over an argument after I stormed out of my home. 

Investors rely heavily on appreciation on a SFH to make money and will need to be prepared to supplement their tenants rent to cover costs.

You're maintenance and time equity will be heavily imbalanced.

We live in Dallas and are heavily invested in apartments in Dallas as syndicators. 

The parameters are set heavily in their favor to minimize their risk of having to pay out.So you can pay for their services and gamble that you will be that 1 in 1000 customer and come out ahead, or you can do everything on your end to limit your chances of needing their services, and keep the $$ in your own pocket

I invite you to talk to people that actually do follow my property program, not an angry bitter mob that won't be happy no matter what I do...I am heavily invested in all real estate - million dollar homes, median price houses, multifamily and mobile home parks and YES, I help people get a portfolio VERY quickly.This week, we have a acquired properties in Dayton Ohio for 5K, two Section 8 ready properties in Montgomery AL for less than 40K that are worth well over 120K, duplexes in Memphis that cash-flow $600/month for only 12K and the crown jewel of my month, a nice contract on a 52 acre mobile home park with cash flows of well over $28,120/month - for less than 1.6MM - pennies on the dollar.Look, i'm not perfect, I've had ups, and downs, like everyone else in in life...Look forward and welcome any criticism - but the facts are the facts - my students get deals done.

Again, you may want to be heavily involved early on to build your track record. 

Those who haven't borrowed someone else's money or are heavily leveraged with no cash reserves won't survive a major downturn in the marker like we had in 2008.

It would eat heavily into my savings though, so that's my only hold back.If all else fails, I could go back to manual labor as a job, but I'd be really upset if things got to that point.

Mail merge those results into automated heavily discounted offers emailed or faxed to the listing agentIn this manner you can make offers on a lot of properties very quickly, this has worked very well for us in the Dallas / Fort Worth area.However - the MLS is where the competition is.