I am writing because my fiance and I need HELP! Noone gives you a straight answer. My fiance has a really good job, and with that he decided about 4 years ago to by some rental properties fix them up and rent them out. Great idea right? well Wrong! We did not have good tenants and it costed lots of money to fix them up after each tenant and also paying the morgage without rent coming in. Lots of Credit card debt incurred and now its making life very challenging, and he can not do it anymore. He is letting the houses go back, we are trying to sell them but in this market not going so good.