Hello Christy,I just joined this group a little over a week ago and coming across your post is already worth the price of admission.

As far as I'm concerned, positive cashflow is the price of admission for a long-term buy & hold and appreciation is a bonus.

Flight, hotel, admission.

Some pay for home warranties for this purpose but those are quite hit or miss (more miss than hit) so I don't use them.I have trusted trades or use Yelp or Angie's List as back-ups.Yes, you will have problems that require you to go a few trades deep to fix but that's part of the price of admission in my eyes.

I am also intrigued by the success stories I've read about mobile homes (maybe because the admission fee is lower than "normal" properties), but I know absolutely nothing about those.

This is worth ten times the 25K admission to Fortune Builders IMHO.

Rocky-Back when I was in law school, the Florida Bar sent a guy to explain the admission process.

Guess I can't win them all.I'm not sure where the law stands on recorded conversations.In california, recorded conversations without the consent of all parties are illegal or not admissable as evidence.

The meetings themselves usually feel like commercials to me but as others have said, the networking is worth the price of admission.

By your own admission, you have nobody who can verify anything they're saying.