Really about growing a strong portfolio of solid deals.Now that being said, if you are a high income earner, well qualified, and can't find reasonably good deals: (i) you can connect with a well connected real estate agent for off-market deals; (ii) you might do a very narrow cost-effective cold call or letter writing.

After my initial email contact with my mentor I wrote out a list of questions for our phone call and we worked our way through them during our call.

We've got tons of Churches in the ghetto where the pastor calls me trying to sell the building to me for 20x what it's worth. 

Good call, Noel—licensing and insurance are critical, but in Tennessee, a contractor’s license is generally required for projects totaling $25,000 or more, including labor and materials (See Tennessee's licensing requirements).

The group is called SAW Real Estate Investor Meetup and can be found on Facebook.

You just go through the property notifications and file a landlord/tenant complain (or whatever its called in your state) to initiate the eviction process.

"jesse" who I will call him, The cell mate friend of that rotten GC I mentioned earlier.

Real estate's "gross rent multiplier" is Wall Street's "sales to revenue",  "cap rate" is roughly "P/E ratio".When evaluating markets and investments I tend to start with GRM (or lazily the 1% rule), then attempt to return a cap rate based on assumptions about costs, then I work my way to multiple years of projections (assumptions about inflation, amortization, tax benefits, etc), and if I am partnering with one of my smart friends I have to pull up an IRR (internal rate of return).I also look at regional employment levels, median income to rent ratio in the zip code etc. 

I would call or email a specialist in FIRPTA such as "Tax solutions FIRPTA consulting" in Katy Texas, since they can answers all questions about the law plus investor friendly lenders

Kind of like a cash for keyshttps://martinezlawcenter.com/new-rental-laws-in-california-...Most of the long time investors I know haven't had problems but if you get a "professional tenant" in look out and call your RE attorney.