I ultimately settled on Columbus, OH as my target market and have been pretty happy with my decision.

This is when you hear stories about how individuals in their early to mid-20s ultimately give up because they're burnt out and have little results to show.

Yes, it's not what you want to do but ultimately the quicker you scale the faster you'll get to freedom. 

I ultimately do want to be the person who owns the assets.

Ultimately, our better measure of performance is efficiency of marketing - we invested $1000 in direct mail and got 1 deal that netted $5000.

As long as you set up the right type of entity you'll be all set.Thats why people you have people that run business, lower that income with all the tricks in the book and ultimately you'll have a lower tax % then most.

While their expertise is invaluable, it's important to remember that ultimately, they represent their own interests in the market.Therefore, I encourage you to take the initiative to run the numbers and analyze the data thoroughly.

Ultimately the borrower sold the property before sale so it was a non issue but had they not, and had we continued with default, if we did not restructure the foreclosure (difficult), we would have more than likely had to wait until sale, suffered a loss, then filed a title claim (Time...time...time...) to hopefully be made whole. 

Ultimately, we will have 10 listed units by the owner of the company, one unit from a co-owner of the company and bring on to manage other external owners in the area. 

And give him the greatest flexibility on how he times his ultimate exit to his best advantage.