Another option would be to get a particularly adamant owner occupant in the area to chair the neighborhood watch committee.

Newbie investors should not hire a mentor, especially one that wanst an arm and a leg to buy their all inclusive program that will then nickell and dime you to death buying all the services they say you need to be successful - aka FB.Instead, read some free stuff, listen to webinars and get an IDEA of what it is you want to do in real estate.Then spend some money on basic how to training, not a mentor but a training course or book that will help you figure out the basics. 

., head, back, joints, abdomen, legs) 10.Feeling that your illnesses are not being taken seriously enough?

When I bought it, the Section 8 tenant on the upstairs floor had just shattered her leg on the poorly repaired front steps and had had to go into managed care.

I agree, this kid has a leg up, I wasn't thinking about this stuff at 16...

Another idea to consider is going in with some partners - they help provide most of the capital and you do the leg work to find and manage the deal. 

Bad debt are items that typically depreciate heavily in actual value you could later resale for but sometimes it doesn't matter.I have a massage chair that cost as much as a car.

The experience was not great, i was doing all of the leg work and what leg work the realtor did yielded incorrect info (uncovered by the research I did).

I always give my tenants the floor protectors that go under furniture legs. 

I just used it today, ripping 1" off a 3" chair rail molding so it kinda-sorta matches the 100 year old baseboard cap molding in the rest of the unit.