If you replace the furnace filter regularly, you can inspect the property.

However, I literally just got an email from my mortgage broker stating that "I had an opportunity to speak with a representative of the parent company that manages Goshen REO [seller] and he told me they purchase US Bank foreclosures in bulk on a regular basis.

I assume you did the regular background checks on the tenants themselves.

We recently attended a 3 day Fortune Builders infomercial and decided to look for other avenues of education online, thus, how we found biggerpockets :)We're a regular, every day couple.

It did for me.If you're just starting out, going into student housing can be a bit more challenging than regular rentals as you may have to deal with more issues that arise from them being there.

During the first few weeks, a full payment is made each week, after which regular payments are made.

PVC and CPVC is very inexpensive and its legal in nearly all cities ( i live in omaha where its regularly well below 0 degrees fyi). no torch, just some primer and sealent and a 10 dollar hack saw is all you need. just make sure you support every few feet, maybe not required but makes it allot more stiff.I started peice mealing the galvanized back together before hand then just decided to take the sawz all to everything and replace with CPVC. made it much simpler :) im 95% done, will be done tomorrow. i will have about 20 hours in it all by the time its all said and done.... but im slow and tend to take allot of local bar breaks in between. same amount of plumbing in copper would of likely cost me over 800 bucks.

With a fixed mortgage, your required monthly cash out-lay is high because of the regular amortization. 

Interested to hear how many leads you get with your basic flyer strategy compared to the regular ol' yellow letters route.

Question, if I have a Special warranty deed, can I or do I want to convert to regular deed?