It's like buying a Ferrari when all you need is a bicycle to transport yourself one mile to work.

I consider myself a quick learner which I attribute to a valuable lesson my dad taught me when he took my new bicycle back to SEARS the day after he bought it for my birthday.  

Then, I head for home and do something like ride my bicycle (usually 8 - 10 miles each afternoon).

I spend the rest of my time riding my bicycle; riding my motorcycle; camping (during the spring/summer), and snowboarding (during the winter).

I work as a Bicycle Mechanic full time, I am in college at Ferris State University with a double major, Mechanical Engineering Technology and Business Administration, and am also working on a real estate certificate from the university and at the end of attaining that also getting a brokers license.

Do you have a bicycle?

I spotted a abandoned property along a bicycle trail I ride,So I stopped and posted on the door is the bank foreclosure notice along with the details of the winterization process.

That last part is an important clue to vetting the don't care properties from the ones that the owner just hasn't gotten around to working on (REO, rehabber, developer, etc.).Do you mail, door knock, hire kids on bicycles, etc.?

As you said you did a lot of reading you can go back to the books, etc and check your list against what is there.Keep you first deal or two very simple as there will be plenty of things that pop up as it is.Like riding a bicycle you just need to start out to get the hang of it.John Corey

Well done.It is sort of like having the training wheels taken off the bicycle.