If you were a little guy with a pizza place paying 1.90 a pound for cheese and the market goes way up in costs to 2.75 a pound you would get crushed on your profit margins.

Part of that may have been the old time Coke machine that offered chilled bottles of Fanta Red Cream Soda, and a t.v. that I could watch Dr.

Burma Shave (shaving cream) signs were popular 50-70 years ago.

Our mailers will cycle through the following mail types: professional letters x 2, handwritten letters x 2 (not yellow letters; cream colored letters, not lined, with a logo / letterhead), postcards x 2, professional flyers x 2, zipletter x 1.

So for example, this property would be a good deal, 100k valued house after repairs * .70 = 70k - 10k repairs - 10k assignment fee, your max offer is 50k, than you re-assign for 60k, you just made 10k, the seller owes 40k on the property, you put it under contract for 50k, so the seller is happy, gets loan paid off, plus gets 10k, you get 10k, and the investor gets the rest of the cheese.

Thanks to Brandon for bringing up those who 'eat cheeseburgers and sit on their couch watching Netflix', because shortly before the webinar I WAS in fact eating a burger (well, turkey burger no bun no cheese) and watching Netflix (I swear it's not my fault, American Horror Story is like watching a train wreck I just can't turn away).

You can wholesale it, double close, lease option, lease purchase, rent to own, sandwich lease option, Club Sandwich with Cheese option (*MY Favorite!).  

When you see a overweight person pushing a shopping basket full of ice cream, something doesn't look right. 

Overall though, even self-managing, I can't go from extremely tax-advantaged (my effective tax rate has been negative for 13 years) to being creamed.

I was just getting a little cheesed at all the math experts out there devaluing the effects of appreciation ("It just keeps up with inflation") without mentioning or realizing the true power of wealth creation in long-term real estate investing involves leverage.