What about general population growth.  

Hi @Ryan Rodriguez, yes, I am LA-area investor and a CPA specializing in taxes for real estate investors and professionals.  

His business trains you how to start and grow the business.

And that is why I went over there just to test myself and see how I would do as far as talking to people on how I can help them in their situation, I would have liked to be with a professional and see how they do it but I am not the type to pay thousands for mentoring and I know the only way I will learn is by practicing and getting out there I appreciate your feedback Carlton, maybe if your open to it we could meet and if you have any pointers you would be willing to give that would be great.

We were dispatched in a very defensive way by one of the organizers once the group started to question him about why they didn’t delivered what they promised in the first place.There was NOT a moment in which the students had their hands on any particular strategy, but rather to continue being enticed to purchase an advanced diamond training.The website they gave us has links that connects to a non-legit or high professional pages with real information, everything was FAKE.On the other hand, the customer support that we talked over the phone after all this non sense was over, mentioned this: “The majority of people PREFERRED to hear inspirational messages.”

The exponential growth works twice as fast if you start with 100%, instead of 50%.Have you read what @Billie Miller did by living in a duplex (house hack)....I don't believe they needed a partner?

They will either come across as a professional, and ask logical questions, or they will talk fast and ask silly questions.

What this exercise might find is:- Contractors willing to communicate and go through formalities of estimating- How hungry the contractor is for work- Which contractors answer your exercise most professionally - Which contractors go above & beyond with thier answers and their own past example work/portfolio- Which contractors accurately estimate material and/or laborOf course if they don't or won't reply, it could also mean they are too good and busy to jump through your hoops -- so they could be great contractors as well. 

The key is simply act ethically and professionally in everything you do, disclose anything that needs to be disclosed, and hold yourself to a higher standard than even the public would hold you to, and you will be fine. 

I know this points to buy-hold, but growth seems more possible by leveraging existing credit/cash and acquire more equity, perhaps through flipping.