Look back to world's fair in the 60's, countless hair-brained crazy head-in-the-cloud's ideas of true creativity that foster into real innovations.

“I just know that I would find mobile homes and fix and flip them.”On ExpressNews.com: Investors allege San Antonio woman — the ‘Queen of Mobile Homes’ — is running a Ponzi schemeThat was one of about 100 times Van Gundy, 45, told the attorney and others she didn’t remember, recall or know the answer to a question during her first meeting with creditors.During the hour-and-45-minute proceeding in her Chapter 7 case, Van Gundy said she sustained a brain injury late last year after falling and hitting her head on a concrete table at her home.

A Community, large network nationwide of people who have been in the business (some for decades), still do the business, and the ability to leverage a very very large and growing 'brain trust' that is unavailable by just finding an individual mentor, or forum.

Open carry: might shy away buyers.Conceal carry: well, most situations with gun fire escalate to the point you can fire or find cover before you need to draw.I used to get called a "stoner" because a bunch of prepper shows said carry a lighter and i always had one at work.Guess who almost dehydrated and died next to 4 ponds soon after?

Being able to pick their brains is always helpful, both their successes, red flags, war stories, etc.And as Jonathan mentioned, the very first step of actually taking action is knowing how much money you have to allocate to buying a property, fixing up a property (if needed) and how much a bank will lend to you.  

If i'm ever in the NE area I will sure to reach out to further pick your brain.

I need this explained in layman's terms please I am still learning and the math breaks my brain a little, haha.

Quote from @Luis Maza: Hi all, returning to the game this year and would like to pick your brain a bit, we started working with a wholesaler that will send us properties here and there with the "wholesale" price, but every time we check the properties and add the numbers, the margins are, well, I am not sure, too low perhaps, maybe we are getting to picky, but this is my dilemma for example...Today we got a property, wholesale price 300K, rehab about 50-60K, ARV is about 440k, but with the cost of hard money, we have about 100k cash, hard money interest at 11%, keeping the property for 90 days while we finish the rehab, closing costs,  commissions, we ended with 30k profit before taxes, while it sounds appealing, adding up all expenses and cost we ended up expending 50K on rehab(labor/materials) and about 50-60K with cost of the loan, interest, commissions, etc, everyone makes money, happy with that, but it seems that we are working to produce a 100k for everyone else, while we make 20-30k if everything goes well...In my opinion, we are not really getting "wholesale" price, it seems that we either buying to expensive, rehabs are much more than we would like to spend and the cost of borrowing that money is too high...We came up with thoughts as: lets fund it ourselves with money from a close friend/partner that we will bring in, and that would save us 10-15k here and there, but still, is that the norm now?

Drop trying to "think like a businessman", "reinvest in your business", "level up" etc - the fewer empty words you pollute your brain with, the clearer is your thinking.Now, off of my weekend soap box. 

We're in the brain storming phase of this.