In many cases, the short sale package that the seller signs will say that the seller can't make money by renting the property during the short sale process.You should ask the listing agent if that is in the documentation, and if it is (perhaps even if it isn't), you may want to contact the lender and let them know what the seller is doing.Perhaps threaten the seller that you will do this and see if he has a change of heart and decides to do the right thing.

Here's a few articles that might interest you about that stuff:How to Start Investing In Real Estate at a Young Age or a “Young at Heart Age”What is Hybrid Real Estate Investing?

[email protected]   She may not be able to get right back to you (her grandson just had open heart surgery today), so if she doesn't get back to you right away her assistant will.Welcome back to Ohio, and to Cleveland! 

What was it that enabled you to decide that you could trust that that person has your best interest at heart?

What i am looking to do is seek advice from fellow investors to see if $30,000 turnkey properties are good/great investments and what i should be aware of.PS i am looking to retire in the USA because that is where my heart belongs.Regards,Sunny

Hands on local is the absolute best and lowest risk way to learn the business and then you are in the driver's seat rather than dependent on the kindness of strangers out of state to make or break your investment and keep your best financial interests at heart.

Something I will take to heart myself.

From my perspective if it has negative or very low positive cash flow I would sell in a heart beat.

Ultimately, you have to have a passion for either or both ~ real estate, or getting a degree.We tend to put our focus, time, and money into those areas in which we are passionate, because those are the things we love to do and we're good at.I don't think this is a question of "logic" so much as a question of the "heart".  

And I believe in my heart that splitting deals doesn't work, you need skin in the game and money in the table for coaching, then you generally work harder.A good analogy is seeing a psychiatrist and having your daddy pay for it.