My mind processes math very easily, though, and the math of real estate investment (more particularly owning rental homes) has me very interested.My goal is to save enough for a down payment on rental property, and in the meantime become as much of an expert as possible on the local market and applicable laws.

a few clicks and all my pics are up and can be easily viewed by anyone I want.

In most places, court records are online and you can easily screen a tenant in a very few minutes (less than 5 minutes) FOR FREE!

If you are not efficient and effective with your marketing dollar, you can easily spend enough to make the extra profit potential of buying directly from homeowners evaporate.

., NAR) and local boards, its only a matter of time before property information is as easily available as these other examples, with much the same effect on the keepers of the keys.

The house in good condition would easily bring in 1200/month if not more, so the cashflow potential is definitely there imo.

If the tenants move out how easily can they be replaced?

All of this is from the civil side, you can be smashed like a bug in court easily if you lie, deceive and mislead a seller in a real estate contract, I have seen it happen, it does happen and it will happen again I'm sure.

I am no expert when it comes to real estate or investing but numbers and common sense comes easily.

I can easily do a higher-end kitchen (okay, no $125K island or iPhone latte machine) with granite, stainless, high-end cabinets...the works for under $15K all day.