If you are doing tile, use the same method by calling your local Florida Tile or Emser Tile showroom for tile installers.  

My main method to get these houses is expired listings where the house is vacant.

I'm currently stuck and do not have any way for traditional funding and my credit is to low for other methods.

I'm currently stuck and do not have any way for traditional funding and my credit is to low for other methods

Hi All,We need to come up with the 25% down payment to purchase an investment property in our area, can you share how we can find this 25% - I know we can look at using private money at a certain % but this method is quite expensive for long term as we are looking at 30 year mortgages.  

Apartments just seem to really catch my interest more than the other methods that I have seen.

Two other methods I can think of are subject to and seller financing for creative financing.

With your method of paying off the properties it would be foolish to keep them once they are paid off as their cash value wisely invested elsewhere, in a truly passive form at retirement, will far exceed any income the properties themselves generate.Rental properties can not be considered as a passive investment by any stretch of the imagination.

That method is much more applicable to real estate that is used purely for investing - i.e. commercial or multi-unit real estate.

In the end, like many people, I would love to achieve financial independence by investing in real estate using the passive income method.