We are totally off-grid, grey water for the veggie gardens and fruit trees, compost everything else and well and solar for the rest.

A typical pay structure is to only pay drivers based on deals that close, but Vaughn knows that people want to see the fruits of their labor right away so he pays them for the lead.

In other words, "low hanging fruit".

It may seem daunting, but you start with the low-hanging fruit first and be methodical about it.

If rent is real low and you can't raise it much even after outlaying tons of cash for upgrades then the juice usually isn't worth the squeeze.15,000 cars a day isn't much.

@Oniel Samuel: In many cases, purchase prices have become so high (driven by local/national/international, individual and institutional investors fleeing pubic markets) that even when investors seek to improve/add value, there is often not a lot of juice left to squeeze.... these projects are often viewed as low return, but "safe" bond proxies. 

Trying to wholesale on market properties is not going to bear any fruit, especially since sellers don’t need to settle for weasel clauses right now. 

A lot of times I genuinely want to share the fruits of my REI labor; paying for friends’ dinners/outings, etc but I then feel guilty when they start to feel like they can’t reciprocate.

We did a light reno and added a 4th bedroom to juice rents.

Very excited to make this post and hopefully make some fruitful and long lasting connections.