:Originally posted by @Jon Mason:I think it's funny to hear "real" investors say that if they have too much going on they'll occasionally wholesale a deal and they feel they're justified in doing so, but if you're a wholesaler and you do this repeatedly, you're clearly morally bankrupt.The party who generally is damaged by incompetent wholesalers is the seller. 

Landlords of only a few properties that do not require more than collecting rent and facilitating occasional repairs are not considered to be in the capacity of a business.

Economic changes do this occasionally.

I personally believe (and this comes with several years experience glancing at the Google stock ticker and walking by the Cramer show occasionally on in the bedroom) the market wont be spectacular over the next couple years, sub 8% at least, where does a guy put his money? 

I have 7 section 8 tenants now and have allowed the program in my units for about 10 years.Every tenant I've had drama and/or damage and/or the occasional eviction has been a smoker.  

Pouring boiling water down the drain occasionally or after a clog may prevent stoppages in drains. 

I occasionally listen to podcasts and am still amazed at how the headlines never match up to the content.

For properties under $50,000 where HUD offers a flat $1250 commission to each agent the percentages are skewed but the number is somewhere in the minus $2500 + 5 to 6% as the minimum acceptable although occasionally a computer glitch(I assume the software was not set up for a flat fee commission) the counter will come back at minus $2500. 

Even as a brokerage, we occasionally have to deal with a false ad for one of our listed properties.  

Other areas I am seeing the occasional 2br 1ba in west town going for 220-240k which after amortization net $9000 a year on only $22,000 down at 10%.