Waited for his property to come up and rather than raising the bid by a thousand, he bumped it up $10k - $30k until it got to $150k.  

That is not how it works.We adopt something because it is tested, proven, and understood it works, why it worked, to what extent it will work, and in what cases it could not work.This is the reason why we should do something, not because it is popular. 

.- NOTE: FB Marketplace is difficult due to their strict policies (they really do NOT want PMCs advertising there)Test the PMC PROCESSES!

Over the past few years, my wife and I have worked hard to improve our financial health—we’ve raised our credit scores above 800, paid off all debt except for our mortgage and student loans, and saved a fair amount.

I did a search on vacant properties and then did a drive-by test yesterday.

I also leverage a tool called Intellihost which helps with pricing strategy and conduct A/B Testing with listing changes.The listing description seems to be just a paragraph.

That will completely break my self-sufficiency test. 

@Kylie A.Crowdfunding is just another way to raise $ / conduit for a sponsor.

This year we had a heat pump cleaning, testing refrigerant charge (didn't need any added) and a capacitor replacement, bill was $157.05, factor I consider are the age of the existing unit, if it needed a charge, potential leak, cost of refrigerant (over the years there have been many varients of the type of refrigerant). 

Become a syndication Co-GP by either putting up the escrow funds or by raising money for the true GP where you receive 1% of the GP share of project upside, then create website and social media marketing materials where you hold yourself out as THE GP for the syndication. 5.