Like your method of "giving back" by teaching, mentoring and public speaking, I am keeping busy helping others build a portfolio in the Toledo market OR helping them recover from some bad prior decisions (I seem to be the Sierra Realty Mr Fix-It for the second half of 2018).Keep the ideas coming, great stuff!

A typical bank mortgage on a 70k loan would be almost half of that 700 a month .

Well from my experience from just looking at the MLS for the past year and a half anything that is rehabbed on the MLS that is a MFH is usually overpriced.

To me truth is about an inch and half thick or however thick a holy Bible is .

Hi Experts,Need your assistance, I have a very good tenant (senior couple), the guy went through some medical condition and he called me to check if I can loan half of security deposit to him just to cover expenses this upcoming month ( Jan'19), he said the rent is on auto-payment and I'll get complete rent but he wanted to see if I can give him half of security deposit to cover his expenses, I never dealt with this before and wanted to see the best way I can help my tenant here. 

They paid half of the 75k in cash, I financed the other half with a five year note.

When you are analyzing rental properties a good rule of thumb for a quick analysis is to expect that you'll spend roughly half of your gross rental income every year operating the property.

The first half dozen or so I bought new from a furniture store. 

Billy I did a hoarder last year that I took 300,000 obs to the dump.. cost me 75k just to remove all the crap.. now that included the houses that was wasted and of no value.. but still.that guy lived there about 10 years so I figure he went out daily and brought back about 100 lbs of junk  LOL  now that included a few cars an RV a boat. you know all those prized possessions and in our area you don't beat back the shrub's etc the whole place was not visible from the street half the stuff was intertwined with vegetation. 

They've been there since the beginning of times and therefore pay half what the market price is in this area.