Now I concentrate on being the visionary in the company while having others do the implementation of my "Vision".As I am typing this, I'm watching my VA's on a separate laptop in my office skip tracing high equity foreclosures.

Such plans are not implemented by custodians, who are purely processing fiduciaries as noted above.

The only way they're accomplishing that is to dispose of the asset after a big value add component is implemented.

I can’t wait to implement some of Paul’s lessons into my own personal investing plan.Keep up the great work, Brandon and David!

This will let you dump all your extra cash flow into the HELOC to pay it down, but let you re-access it to tackle another project when you're ready.Finally, although it will probably cost you several thousand more to implement/use, perhaps a hard money type lender is a better way to purchase. 

I think after a couple properties when I’ve been able to mature a little more as an investor and implement systems that really help me scale I’ll look outside of SF towards the north or even out of state.

I like to have control in most situations to ensure the right people are hired and the right solutions are implemented but I can see a benefit to asking the seller to deal with it. 

But again - education is the key PRIOR to starting to implement any strategy.

Is that something you want as an employer- 401ks are generally more $$ to implement and maintain or just do an personal Ira just for yourself or do something in between like a SEP or SIMPLE.

A lot depends on the strategy that a particular person is implementing and on the a syndicator as well.