That’s real income instead your pocket, even if it’s not cash.

They might be sitting on 50 million, 100 million cash just waiting for right time to deploy in cycle.

I've been tossing around the idea of relocating (not solely for real estate but it is a big factor) and I'm wondering what areas have the best potential for flips over the next few years.

I told them that I work with real estate investors that would be able to help them and put some money in their pocket to help them with their crushing debt and bills so they wont go into foreclosure on both houses How did you finance this deal?

The real actual job is still the contractor analysis. 

It was like paying for multiple Master's degrees to get our "real world" experience.  

Is that because you don't know what your Real Estate goal is?

There is no real risk. 

I'm not new to real estate investing or bigger pockets, but new to the forum.

As you mentioned intentional flips are typically considered inventory-This means the income is ordinary income and as such: - Is not a capital gain, so hold time of 1 year does not change to a better long-term capital gain rate - Can not be invested in a QOF Deductions related to it can't be pushed or changed- all costs are accounted for with the inventory component