There are gentle ways to force yourself to live on less and then route the rest of your investment dollars to real estate.

Originally posted by @Aaron Barber:Hello all, first post here so be gentle haha.I just retired from 20 years in the military and I'm looking at buying a property as a rental.

I would be gentle with how you relay that you know they are delinquent.

anyone who has any words of wisdom for me, as i start down the Hubzu twisted trail?

In Oregon we did mainly timber plays so bigger dollars.. one of my star's was a 700 acre tree farm we paid 1.8 for i busted 10 lots off the front half that i sold for about 1.5.. we held the rest of the land logging it gently each year bringing in about 30 to 50k net in log revenue ( commercial thinning is what they call it). 

Thanks for posting this.Aloha Berry, thanks for your gentle input...Just to be clear, I absolutely do perform my Own Due Diligence on every property every time.

Because there are newbies on BP who look to these kind of posts and feel they're inadequate...or who go and dive into dangerous deals in hopes of replicating this and end up getting scammed.If it's too good to be true,it probably is.I'm not a hater,I just like being the gentle voice of reason/caution in the midst of rabid euphoria.If it's a real deal,more power to him.But we don't know that until he gets back on his own thread and provides some meat on the bone.Honestly if you made this post yesterday I'd say "common man, ease of the kid", but I think you might be right  :(

For you to assert I am doing so is to twist what I have said. 

I have had clients that have gone the eclectic and gently used route and it worked out for them but I can tell you they did a lot of work to save money! 

. :-) You never realize how twisted some humans can be until you actually see some things.....I must live a really boring life...