The only possible way to keep costs that low is to have your own captive crew and keep them busy nonstop.In fairness, though, Flip or Flop has 20+ projects going on at a time.

At the same time I think I would look long and hard at Milwaukee, Madison, and Grand Rapids before choosing Minneapolis.Madison has a captive audience with student housing needs near the campus and downtown.  

I was captivated by his framing of real estate investing as a mentality of solving problems.I--like almost everyone else on this site--wish to invest in real estate to create consistent passive income in order to achieve.....you guessed it, financial freedom!

A tiger in captivity learns that a steak is coming everyday from the trainer.As for the children, the trend of people in this country suggest they'll "grow into" normal sized Americans by they time they hit adulthood.

The gurus like to do an 'education lunch' type thing, where they show how great REI is and have a captive audience for 45 minutes.

The other day I heard a guy talking about captive insurance companies.  

all over the place mucking things up as a captive vendor that can only offer one firm's products. 

Seems like you have captive interest from the "networked with a ton of storage managers and owners" you have.

Are his sub contractors captive subs that work on all his projects?

Assuming you really mean "self-insure," a good rule of thumb is that setting up a captive insurer only makes sense if you pay between $100-$500k per year in premiums.