If you are going to use Zillow, I would supplement that with Redfin and 1 other source. 

We want to supplement our income from our full time jobs and make it easier for our wives to stay home with our children. 

I want to buy some land and put a few mobile homes on it while I use a portion for my construction business and rent a portion for horses to supplement my income.

You can bring up that if they take a full purchase price they will have a large tax bill from the sale, but with SF they will get steady monthly checks to supplement their SS and/or pensions.  

@Mike Henson,You stated you were looking to supplement your retirement income.

As an independent contractor, I was using those funds to supplement my full time job salary and paying utilities and a little extra spending money.

My ideal scenario would be to own a small investment company with a partner that holds a few mid-sized rental properties for baseline income, and supplements this with a few high-profit flips every year to help grow the rental portfolio and pay for lifestyle upgrades, vacations, etc.My formal education is an Electrical Design engineer, and for the past 10 years I've worked for large companies designing complex electronic (computer) circuits for things like Medical Devices, LED lighting, etc.

I'm a 5th grade Math teacher and I decided to get into real estate to supplement my income.  

Of course if you could leverage a personal or business Line of Credit to supplement your cash that could help you out with out actually having to get a loan from a bank to rehab and wholesale.

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