Money for the down payments that comes in like an annuity either from your W2 efforts or from owning another business.

Start with small goals, and soon enough, you'll find yourself turning away business.

A standard "business owner's policy" is fine -- it covers the building, commercial general liability, and ideally, loss of rent. 

Ultimately responsibly using leverage (both equity and debt), implementing systems and buying good assets with realizable equity  is how you scale while operating a sustainable real estate business.

Lots of posts on different companies so be sure to check out what people have said about vendors you are considering doing business with.

Trying to bring this back to the top.

They were selling on pro forma, but the market and the debt market have shifted, and it's aa lot harder to achieve higher pricing with lower rents.We've purchased over 2,000 units, and the simple answer to the question is that they are either mom and pops and run their businesses with ZERO KPIs, they do not want to risk losing tenants if they raise rents, and they don't treat their asset as a business.When you take over, it can be difficult to get rents to market if they are very suppressed.

I love learning ideas to make my business better from other local investors.

Not sure you really make more money.BRRRR would be interesting if you can find it.Flipping is competitive and brings in cash but not long term wealth.They all are great options, it just depends.

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