Hint: to obtain "bigger pockets", we're encouraged to be looking to pay UNDER market value! 

As @Michael Baum  hinted, it depends on so many factors like what property we're taking about and what you'd buy in the US and where.

Tuscon hint hint.

Let me give you a hint of the levered up investor when the times turn.

The Wall Street people now keep arguing inverted yields hinting there is something in the horizon developing then it will happen.

I did my subtly in my new lease.

You hint at not having money in it and that paying the bank interest subtracts from cash flow. 

Youll learn more by doing both at the same time then you will doing one at a time and you might get lucky and line up your financing right as you go into escrow or vice versa and if all else fails you have the exit strategies i just told you.Now if you dont know how to find deals or find funding etc then thats a whole nother story that i cant post here because i would be promoting myself and my post would get removed ;) but you get the hint LOL.If you have any questions feel free to message me or use any of the contacts in my signature to reach out and lets talk :)Mr.

Of those a normal market cycle with a hint of mortgage rate rises I view as the most likely culprit if anything does happen.   

GC-based real estate investing strategies are only good, in the Bay Area at least, if you yourself are that GC, or if that GC is someone you have an established relationship with (ie, you have done multiple deals in the past, using them), or if you have the sales/marketing experience necessary to get that off-market property (hint hint: if 1 or more Realtors are involved, it is by definition not "off market") for well below actual value.100% of the renovation purchase mortgages I've closed in the last 3 years have been for homebuyers that are a) themselves GCs, b) full time experienced professional salespersons/marketers, or c) professional full time Realtors (sorry "wholesalers" and "mentors," you aren't on the list).