There is always an element of risk. 

“We had interest from all over—numerous groups from New York and California,” said Finley Askin, associate director at SVN Chicago Commercial, the brokerage hired to sell the buildings.

@Jason Howell Hi Jason, I read once that you should come up with a specific numeric goal for a time frame (month, year, etc).

I'd start with reading the numerous posts from the past on this topic.

They did extensive upgrades post-purchase, so a lot of the elements have been updated. 

Always do a title search, watch out for properties that have been TD numerous times and also filtered through large hedge funds, I recently encountered a nice 2.61 acre piece in a rural area I was going to buy from owner before it went back to the auction.

Numerous real-estate events I have attended seem to have an upsell to them to the next course that cost an outrageous amount.

We plan on doing this a number of times to acquire numerous paying notes and funds.But my question is, should we run this through a business of some kind?

I have called numerous banks about tons of houses and they had zero interest in speaking with me.

I've listened to numerous podcasts which has inspired me to add real estate investing to my resume.