We receive $400 pw rent from the property and I'm an Entrepeneur hopefully about to sell a future business food franchise.

We collect the money then take our cut and pass the funds up the food chain to my Capital company and close on the notes splitting them to our buyers.

ok I see what you mean.. thanks for the food for thought

The lender must also look at your debt-to-income ratio or at the amount of money you’ll have left over each month to pay for things like food and heat.

**I need to pay my personal bills and put food on the table during the development process!

I knew I'd always been intrigued by real estate investing, but all I knew was the "get wealthy very very slowly" strategy, and knew nothing of the "put food on the table next week" strategy (short of being a realtor, which I wasn't interested in).

Hold 1 year of required expenses in an emergency savings account to include: rent, utilities, vehicle fuel, food, insurances, IRA mandated contributions (if you have any) plus anything else.2.

Before I leave that brain food on the table, these questions, which hopefully we can give our own answers to (those who wish to), are not meant for direct answers, they are purposed to make us think and hopefully by doing so come to some understanding of quantification of just how hard our money is going to work and the affinity to risk that carries with it.

If a person owns 15+ fast food franchise locations and 4 auto dealerships doing over $50M a month, is it that far fetched that this individual may not want to "advertise" his ownership interests to the general public?

Or download my "2013 Housing Market Forecast" (which will be updated soon) from our website for a few more ideas and food for thought.Having invested out-of-state since ten years ago, I can tell you that great property management is critical to your long-term success.