You live off the fruits of your labor.

Certainly the low hanging fruit is gone, but with patience and homework, you can still find the occasional gem.

I will never put all my eggs in the "gold" basket.

We are glad to have you and wish you a long and fruitful time here with us.

I think that the BP community will help me learn how to achieve my goals in real estate, and at the same time build connections that could turn into fruitful partnerships in the future.I recently read the beginners guide to investing (which was great) and plan on getting the book of flipping houses soon too.

Or my kids get bored and pluck all your fruit and veggies off the vine before they're ripe.There's probably a million other scenarios like this that I haven't thought of.

We know the best quality lead is a HomeVestors buy call but we do not want to put all of our eggs in that basket as our cost per lead has nearly doubled in the last year. 

Interesting, so you would suggest he enter into a handshake deal to share with someone the fruits of his labor?

There are definitely deals to be had here that will cashflow but it is a skill game to find properties as there isn't much low hanging fruit left. 

Try bandit signs, call FSBOs, rental sign numbers, rental ads in craigslist and start figuring out what markets you want to direct mail to..spend some time with this so you arent wasting your money direct mailing to markets that won't bear much fruit.