They're simply not joined at the hipIn terms of specifics, today's mortgage rate movement was very small.

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It is simply a business model wherein the end buyer is paying a premium for a cash flowing property in exchanging for having to do little to no research or hands on activities.Properties that appreciate are much more sensitive to location than properties that just cash flow. 

To your other point, when purchasing subject to, you will most likely be purchasing the home for at least 50% of the appraised value of the home...you are simply purchasing it subject to the current financing.I highly recommend that podcast if you are having trouble sorting out subject to financing.  

To be more successful, you simply have to work on the other elements to progress your REI pursuit.

Which is more likely to occur.  1)  The bank calling a loan due on sale for transferring to an LLC, or 2) A landlord being sued and judgment entered in excess of my liability limits (500,000 per property, 1 million umbrella)?

So now I myself am entering the real estate investment market, and with the help of members of Bigger Pockets, learn and grow my knowledge with the intentions of helping others just the same down the road. 

At times I wonder if, since entering adult life, my competitive spirit has died. 

Aside from it being a short sale and I am sure some of you know how difficult these can be, what was even more so challenging was that this property had tenants, the seller lives in Hawaii, US Bank is think is located in the mid west and my Buyer, wasn't a direct relationship but through a whole seller. needless to say thing did not go as planned, but the bright spot is simply this...

Pedro, I doubt anyone can really answer this, it's simply to vague, like asking how viable is it for a new fisherman to use a canoe, a john boat, or runabout, maybe  cutter.