If you have no experience and aren't taking any risk (other than your time), there's not much you could do to make me comfortable investing.

For those of you comfortable with the evaluation of a residential property, do you still hire and inspector?

Do deals that have large margins so if you screw up a bit (which we all will) you don't get burned.From my own short experience I already feel a bit more comfortable and like I said, I may not even get the house.

I myself am comfortable buying notes anywhere throughout the United States with a few exceptions.

When I think about a single fully passive investment in the $1M range, I generally assume about 10% unleveraged return -- so I was assuming $100K annual income, which is NOT enough for me to retire comfortably.

What is your comfort zone for investing?

Most get so frustrated they just throw up their hands.Secondly, once they get so far into the foreclosure process, most realtors don't feel comfortable attempting to help sell their home because they can't guarantee the closing before the auction date due to the restrictive lending and that the bank won't typically stop the foreclosure even if there is an offer on the table unless the past due amount is completely caught up and the loan reinstated.

I want to ask you also how comfortable are you with the broker?

The property had potential but was in need of more repair than I am comfortable with for my first deal.

I am not familiar with lending, but am with owning, so there is more comfort there for me/us.I think Jared made some good points just above here too.This is a response I posted a few weeks ago as to the idea that the UBIT and related taxes would 'eat up the profits'....................................................................................................