Outside of the boots on the ground team that include a property management branch/ in-house PM operation obviously another secret ingredient in being able to provide to one’s out of state investors is the art of being able to max out the section 8 rent and have the government pay 100% of it!

Candice,I recommend the simplest way - take earned income from your business and buy life insurance with it, privately.Your personal financial life can then be the bank to your business, using life insurance cash value.

The missing ingredient for me was local talent to help efforts.

Douglas Peterson - I've used a number of products, but sometimes I forget to try the simplest of measures --- Google, Facebook, Whitepages, etc. --- sounds crazy I know, but I actually have good luck with these.

In this case, we went out on a limb with this inexperienced father/son partnership but all of the right ingredients were there so we took a chance.

Thanks guys...I have some quickcrete already that I used to install a post, so that sounds like the simplest solution.

You have some of the ingredients to be successful.

I decided on Wholesaling because low start cost and they said it't the simplest.

Seems like that would be the simplest way to find out as well as to educate yourself more about what specific things you have to have in your next deal to get them to want it.

Unfortunately this is not the case in the month I have been asking him for them.I'm sure everyone knows that feeling of being right at the end of a project and needing the last ingredient.