Different strokes for different folks.I'm handy with a weapon , deadly accurate, and have a nice collection of boom sticks.

I can see this working in low value areas... were you may be a wholesaler that needs to buy before you resell so your not selling RE without a license.. and your confident you can indeed resell. and you have the discipline to payoff you card as funds come back.I think this is also OK for high net work folks who can stroke a check if they like but use this as OPM.. with never a worry of paying it off at anytime.. 

He called it "Skip Tracing" and has built a team to trace and take the deal all the way to acquisition without any single stroke of the keyboard. 

If you were early you did fantastic, if you were in the middle you did good (which is where your approach would get you in) I would rather learn all the indicators of an emerging market (not just the broad strokes like population increase, supply/demand, job growth etc.

@Mark Poulton - With myself being new to real estate, I am learning more as quickly as possible, and finding that there are different strokes for different folks.Interesting article on the lease VS M2M - https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/09/0...We have those that are strongly in favor of one, and those strongly in favor of the other, both with seemingly good reasons for the particular situation they may have found themselves with. 

For you its a slipped disk and heat stroke .

A few more additional strokes of the pen.A commercial loan to cover all 5 is nice.

Again different stroke for different folks, but it got me thinking an entire park sounded interesting. 

Have you ever had a heat stroke?

Let’s not be so ignorant that we paint an occupation with a broad stroke like that.