Re: Pro's and Con's to owning rental realestate...

Re: Pro's and Con's to owning rental realestate... by mike (texas) on November 22, 2009 @02:21

I can only offer my apologies for obviously insulting you with my questions. I have absolutely no ill intentions whether you can bring yourself to believe me or not. I will thank you for reading my request so closely because it was meticulously disected in your rebuttal and refusal to entertain. I had absolutely no idea how my question(s) could spark so much debate and skepticism. You did state that my initial question had nothing to do with the cons in which I am researching; I beg to differ. Is it not a con for you as a landlord to have a vacant property? I asked you to quantify the need to fill it in monitary terms to put it into perspective for the average reader of my research paper. I can call my teacher/professor an average reader because she is not an expert in real estate (not "realestate" right...sorry I forgot the space before...I didn't know it would raise such a red flag and give so much insight into my "true motive"). Therefore in utilizing, what I thought to be, a creative tool to define the level of urgency a landlord has to fill a vacant property, a monitary explanation was an easy choice which everyone can understand. I am confused as to why you feel the need to attack me and/or my motives. I will say you are correct in that if I used "my daddy" as a referenced source in my paper it wouldn't go over well. But I would be a complete fool not utilize all the tools and resources I have readily available. For that exact reason, I would not be referencing "my daddy" in my research, I would be referencing his company name and the executives he has on staff as a proper source. I just felt like I had to address this with you as you felt it apropriate to pick my questions and requests apart. I never wanted to bicker back and forth over this and I wonder why if you had nothing to add, why not just keep away from this thread and say nothing at all? I am sure everyone in this forum can look out for themselves and get along just fine everyday without your warnings asking them to be careful when answering my question. Inadvertently, the few die hard skeptics which have not only avoided answering my question like the plague but thought it appropriate to also seemingly take satisfaction in being the horn blowers, have contributed to my research in the end. There is no doubt in my mind that extreme paranoia is a learned attribute and is only, in this instance, obtained over a long stent in a venture that has burned you more than once...real estate investing/renting. So in the interest of avoiding a pissing match and trying to out wit each other in a heated debate over who's who and what are the motives, I will just say with all due respect and honesty, I apologize for obviously stepping over the line and asking a rightfully difficult/unfair question of which I had no idea I was doing. I thought it was an easy question that would get a much more positive response. I did get some good advice (contacting a local R.E.I.A) and polite responses. Thanks for those who offered me that courtesy. Even the angry/defensive responses have, oddly enough, added an interesting twist of information to my research. Thank you very much Don for your insight be it speculative and presumptuous or not.

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