I strongly suggest you go through a licensed hard money lender for your first few properties, @Gene Belaval.

If it does investing outside of your mortgage dominates prepaying it.  

It seems as long as I take my medication the chances of me dying from my bad genes is reduced drastically, but I wonder will I work another 5 years hustling to get more and more money than I need and then be diagnosed with cancer and given 1 month to live?

Where IBM, Dell and HP (Compaq) once dominated, we now have Apple, Google and Amazon in the mobile space.One thing worth noting is these high profile companies are all choosing warmer destinations to expand.

Quote from @Dominic Pizzi: Depending on how you plan to finance the property (your own money or by using a lender/conventional means) the HOAs of a condo are going to kill your margins.

If you have a business plan and you're doing this full time it might be worth another look. so...Investor Carrot = Get it if you're serious about having a web presence and dominating google rankings to get organic and PPC leads that convert like no other.Realeflow (or other CRM) = newb cannon fodder, but if you're experienced or following a biz plan / system it would probably be worth it.

You will profit "less" than hiring your own subs or doing your own work, but the offset is time, and if your time is better spent landing deals, you don't want to be setting toilets or painting trim.With that said I do mine different.

You can see why FHA financing dominates the market now.If you guys want to partner, do it on investment properties, not your personal residences if it can be avoided.

I have a mentor that has dominated the West Michigan market for the past 17 years, and he's a wealth of information to me.

It is quickly becoming the dominant product in residential water supply.