@Jessica Sorensen I think if you want cashflow and you have great vision and remodeling skills then take a look at Oak Park/Tahoe Park.

Foolishly, I let "newbie" roadblocks blur my vision and I put real estate investing on the back burner for 20 years.Now that I'm in my forties, I'm ready to take investing seriously.

However; we're listing the house as soon as we start framing, so who knows, a buyer might come along and have a totally different vision! 

As well as your mission, vision and values.I have enough on my plate, without becoming a social worker or financial advisor to our tenants.

Unless you start working as an Ibanker and transition into a private equity firm working for investments and can accrue enough knowledge, investor connections and get very good at selling a vision (always tougher than selling a product), then you are more likely to do it by acquiring a large portfolio or merging a lot of small portfolios together.

Your vision and persistance with the forums has made this a great place to be a part of.Thank you.

There are countless examples in small and big business alike in which geography plays no hand in the success or failure of the business...Things like vision, management, execution, skillsets, etc.

This is my vision of the mailman :pup: Hold notes and get rich slowly.

If someone came to me with an offer to buy the townhouse we live in for $525 a month at around the fair market value I would do it, I would try and reneg the price a little but I would still do it.not because i like the place I live in, actually I hate it. but I also have vision I know what these places sold for when they were new I know what they go for right now and I see the area changing and growing and that would be a great opportunity for someone who has bad credit to own something, thats a huge boost to someone who is down on thier luck to be able to say thay own thier home. congrats on your deal, I hope to be able to do somthing like that in a few years

I can vision it, I see the potential, I know I can make it work..