Is 20% Cash on Cash Possible with minimized risk?

[Alan Charles]

Here is a question that I was asked the other day that got me thinking. I wondered if anyone could be more creative than I was in finding a solution to this challenge as my answer was a dull buy and hold and keep forever with conventional finance . If you had a half a million dollars to invest and the objective was to earn a yearly income or cash flow after all expenses of $100, 000 per year from it ( in other words 20% Cash on Cash return) , how would you do it? Where would you do it? Which strategy would you use? How would you minimize the risk to your capital? Who can be the most creative?