Their employees are paid purely on commission and their "salesmen" are at the bottom of the commission ladder.

Although that plan was devised out of pure excitement for "what could be" it was not necessarily a plan built on any sound or proven real estate techniques.

Perhaps your's is purely appreciation.

Put houses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 under ABC LLC, then have another company on its own, XYZ LLC that holds properties 6, 7, 8 ,9 an so on.However, for one thing, you aren't in New York City or San Fransisco, you're in pure red blooded Republic Party held corporate loving, consumer despising, tenant hating Oklahoma!

Pure overhead numbers can eat all the hoped for gains in a very short time.Neither I nor my father will accept less than 4 to 1 return.

Also, to your point- these were moreso community farms, not purely commercial agricultural ventures, though they had restaurant and retail clientele.It is indeed a different thing altogether to pursue land purchase for strict commercial agriculture.

One point I've heard from investors regarding the difference between a 3-family and 2-family, is with a 3-family home, you feel much more like a landlord (more can go wrong, more things to fix, etc...)On a pure ROI basis, you're usually better with a 3-family.  

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Here's my question, is it realistic for me to try flipping house (I'd like to be making about 30k a year purely from real estate) starting out.

That is pure fiction in my world!