If you’re thinking of branching out, cities like Austin or San Antonio are worth considering, but staying local has its perks too.

I can get 5 times as many deals without increasing my budget.

There are two ways to do this decrease spending and increase income.

I'm not as good a professional but the work I did was mostly good enough for us to live in, and the small fixes to make it good enough for renters has been worth trying to do it myself.

Buying & selling Promissory Notes is a result of the intrinsic value.In fact,  a $300,000 Promissory Note is worth way more than its face value, because of Securitization.

That does not require employment or job seasoning instead it uses the rents to qualify and you can take out up to 80% LTV cash.Use the cash to put down on the next 1-2 or more properties as long as the other properties are debt servicing themselves it opens up more opportuities to buy more future assets and increase your passice income.  

If I create a debt fund that offers 9% interest on first lien notes with a 5-7 year payout, would that be attractive to high net worth investors?

(The people running 500+ units or $100m syndications when the average BP listener (I assume) has 1-10 units and is worth $1-5M.).

You have to buy more with your 1031 than your portion is worth.

.) • Multi-unit would only support a %, so a quad would 25% and prorated over all years of ownership....witteling advantage to not worth the effort. • Single unit properties get pro-rated.