Getting a loan against residential property is a piece of cake these days, but raising funds for purchasing a commercial space isn't so.

I want to have my cake and eat it too, as I am trying to balance stable, reliable cash flow with equity appreciation.

If you are able to erase some of those expense after the fact, it's icing on the cake. 

Unless you're in an area that's real prone to everyday rainstorms take your time, get some braceros to help with the hard labor and have a party.Piece of cake.

I'm still wondering how I'd be able to move a property of that size after I'd gotten it under contract, because of the size it would detract from your casual investors.As for the market, I'm sure you're right, so I was thinking of focusing on the outskirts of LA county, Pasadena, West Covina, and places in Orange county, like Anaheim.

If the numbers make sense with the current taxes, a successful tax challenge down the road is just icing on the cake.

She decorates cakes at Sam's Club in her area, I told her just to tell every one she knows that she pays $1,000 to anyone that give us a person that needs to sell a home and we make an offer on it to buy and they accept.

John,Please don't take offence, but that's a "Let Them Eat Cake", good in theory, but unrealistic response form someone who is Obviously not a Mortgage Broker and has never had to deal with the Builder's or Builder's Lenders relentless efforts to Coerce and Steer their client.I could be beating them in rate and in closing costs, but when their title company feeds the Builder's insider info as to what lender I'm using and then they come waiving $7,000 in builder credit to pay closing costs and/or home upgrades, client loyalty goes out the window!

That said, I believe there is a nice little mix of the two where you can have your cake ( cash flow) and eat it (appreciation).

I might include birthday cake, too :)