I'll keep everyone posted with results and progress.

We'd share our goals with each other and communicate weekly on what progress we've made, what we've learned, how we can improve what we're doing, and generally hold each other accountable for becoming the best we can be in 2014.I'd like to get the group up and running by the end of next week, so inbox me asap so we can discuss if you're interested.

Become a part time real estate agent and find the deals / sell the houses while he oversees the projects.Sounds like the natural progression to me but it requires that you live in the same area.

I feel this sight is a BIG work in progress.

However, when I think about "New York" I think big people, big money, tons of competition, and impossible for me to make any progress there.

We are up to 44 units right now but know that in order to grow at the rate that we want to, we are going to accept investors as a part of our apartment equation.We already have investors for our houses so this feels like a natural progression.

Good Luck with your endeavors and looking forward to see your progress.

Basically my plan is to show him some of my rehabs in progress, explain how the business works, how I would use his money, how it is protected, etc.

Hope to hear more from you and see your progress.

Randy,I will be interested to see what other responses you get.I guess the basics would be as a 'con' is that you would then need to worry about 'cash flow' compared to having it free and clear.The 'pro' would be that you could leverage those funds more progressively.