I enjoy being able to walk my dogs to the fruit stand to get the freshest produce that is locally grown.I feel very fortunate for having found the Bigger Pockets Community.

It might be one of those things like every other person in L.A is an actor or producer., it's funny you mentioned that about syndicators , it does seem like there are a ton of them these days.

Our overall strategy is to acquire and flip houses in order to generate capital to buy revenue producing properties (apartment complexes ect.) 

When we decide on purchasing a property is has to be vacant, under $600k and able to produce $1000 rough profit per month (Rental income - Mortgage - Expenses) Originally posted by @Henry J.

i'd borrow against the annuity and/or see what RE tax benefits are available and purchase an income producing assest, depending on your RE goals of course. 

A lot of agents (not the top producers but the others) really just "fell" into real estate and do it because they could not make a career out of something else.

Here are the figures:House 1 Purchase Price $110,000.00 20% down 30yr fixed 4.75% 3-2 CBSEstimated value: $197,000.00Mortgage : $81,000Rent: $1,450PITI: 787.37Vacancy/Capex/M&R 18%: $261.00FCF: $402House 2Purchase Price: 131,000 3-2 20% down 30yr fixed @ 4.5% built 1983 CBSEstimated Value: $170,000Mortgage: $99,641.00Rent: $1350PITI: $837.42Vacancy/Capex/M&R: $243.00FCF: $270.00I’ve always been of the mindset to hold any income producing asset that produces cash flow, I mean why would you sell it?

Sounds like you are thinking about things correctly and don’t fear good debt that produces cash flow.

@Riz AhmadA search for "wisconsin title abstract" produces a bunch of options for companies that could do a title search for you.

It seems like it would be based more on the income that its producing.