I look at it like 20k or so minimum then maybe 2500 to 5k a door up to a certain amount.better to be safe than sorry and its not like the money is spent its in your account and you could do very short term investmetns with it as well.. like short term lending. ( carefully)Most investors that run into trouble are simply undercapitalized have too much debt and when they have a bad day they can't get their units up and running and it becomes a cascading effect.

I paid the annual $30 for the membership, but I THINK that was simply for meetup.com, and might have been totally useless.

Investors can simply pay the bank judgement, and cut a deal for the owner to walk with some money - now that they're going to lose the house and equity at auction, in addition to getting foreclosed.So again - this does not explain - why has this house landed in Auction - when the judgement amount is way less than the market price.

@Bobbe Erlinger I would sure love to speak with you and really hope this is simply a coincidence. 

We obviously have a spreadsheet of where you simply plug this info in and out pops a score.

Amazing, just simply amazing!

I'm going to continue using BP for knowledge, going to check out the local REIA, and simply work on gathering as much information as possible for my venture into real estate investing. :)@Sean Holmer I'm leaving my options open to all of Virginia at the moment.

This leads to people entering investment arenas that require greater knowledge and skill sets to acquire and successfully monetize. 

All I am pointing out is that the time to create a good amount of wealth simply by using a buy and hold strategy has come and gone in my mind.  

The electrician simply ran a dedicated 20a line from the breaker box to each of the bedrooms and the living room.