Capital--earning with flips to reinvest in our portfolio How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

@Othman Zizi Following the NAR settlement the way brokerage fees are earned and who is responsible varies transaction to transaction.

He talks about how you can purchase a rental property, manage it as a short term rental during the year you acquire it, do a cost segregation study, use those "losses" to significantly reduce your taxable income that year, and then turn the property into a long term rental in the following year. 

The actuaries realize they have too many policies in one area and the insurance companies want to reduce risk and spread risk. 

I find that when I allow pets, I get more and higher quality applicants who earn more, have better credit, and have fewer background problems.

By living in one unit and renting out the others, you reduce your living expenses and generate income.

So the ONLY GC's you will ever get to make this work with, are the GC's who are too small, too new, too green, too novice, to have earned the PROPER logistical system and account's to have obtained Manufacturer/Supplier direct pricing. 

I should look at house hacking as a way to reduce my living expensesAll of that makes sense to me but in my personal situation, I live with my parents for free.

I work in a bank and see first hand how they filter their earnings through the system in creatively various ways. 

Depending how much you earn you can step up those savings by getting a side-hustle.