And you’ll definitely need to compromise between:1.

Appraisal costs paid directly to an appraiser, and perhaps a nominal credit check fee, are the only exception.Don’t overpay for a property, compromise your expected returns, or ever feel desperate to do a deal.

If bitcoin is hacked and compromised, it would have a catastrophic effect and there is no government bail out program to help on that crash.Early investors have started exiting crypto currency.

@Chris Hayes building a team is a good plan but is usually tricky because they all have to learn to work together in an ideal world you could find a couple of general contractors like me that knows different trades and have them work in everything that have to be done, unfortunately those are very rare to find and the few that I know are staying busy all year getting good money. there is a math rule that I always explain to my clients and that you might or might not heard of it, I always tell them that as a client when you hire a contractor you gotta consider 3 things, Time, Money & Quality. you can only pick 2 out of those 3, If you want to save money and want great quality that means the job is gonna take longer, if you want to save money and have it done fast the quality will be compromised, and if you want good quality and do it fast that means you gotta hire more people means it won't be cheap. once you have this in mind you want to find that perfect balance that works for you. a lot of people also underestimate how important is to find a good project manager/general contractor, this is even harder to find because just because you know different trades doesn't mean that you are good a managing others and organizing the jobs, and I have also meet "Project Managers"  with business degrees with "experience in management" that have no clue what it takes to get a job done so they make the contractors work difficult and get in their ways and you as an investor end up wasting time and money. 

You only need to put 3.5% down, so cashwise it won't get in the way of your flipping, wholetailing, and wholesaling goals.My first deal was a 4-unit up I bought with FHA 3.5% down here in Santa Clarita.I lived for free (as opposed to paying rent) + enjoyed cash flow + built equity so it definitely didn't compromise my cash reserves.Good luck!

You only need to put 3.5% down, so cashwise it won't get in the way of other real estate goals you may have.My first deal was a 4-unit up I bought with FHA 3.5% in Santa Clarita.I lived for free (as opposed to paying rent) + enjoyed cash flow + built equity so it definitely didn't compromise my cash reserves.Good luck!

Since DFW is a heavily investor infested market, all the good burbs with year over year capital appreciation are already selling at a premium and hoping for a 1% rental yield does not seem realistic.Hence, my though since last few days has been to compromise a little bit on both fronts and buy something in a burb where there is a hope of capital appreciation and a rental yield of .85% or more.

@Brian Reiner, @Aaron Klatt has a good idea.My first deal was a 4-unit up I bought with FHA 3.5% in Santa Clarita.I lived for free (as opposed to paying rent) + enjoyed cash flow + built equity so it definitely didn't compromise my cash reserves.Good luck!

I've looked into CorporateDirect and also talked to 2 local attorneys, practicing assets protection.While CorporateDirect reps advice on having 2 level LLC with main one in Wyoming , the local 2 said that CA LLC is enough.Other caveats, as we know are 800$ CA Franchise tax per LLC...it is getting expensive putting each property under single LLC, tending to go to a single LLC holding multiplied property, compromising on layer protection at some level. 

I'm looking for ways to save few bucks without compromising quality, and to share this information with everyone else reading this thread.This is for toilet paper only.