Should I go after college students that specialize in each trade?

But the trade off would be a payout and probably can't happen faster than 30 days anyway.

At some level are you just trading one income vehicle for another with the added bonus that you get the asset back (albeit there is a risk if the property gets trashed due to bad management) if the lender flakes out (and of course the hassle of calling the note).Hopefully some of the experienced private money lenders will jump in on this one, as it is a fantastic question.

But, as Andy pointed out, you are still trading hours for dollars.Investing is different.

That makes more sense if you know that for the past 10 years I have been doing our self-directed investing with trading options.

With the amount of time it takes to analyze and trade properly I can do so much more with what I already am very good at which is real estate.Both of the people mentioned above have real estate holdings.

If you're farther away it may be worth enlisting a property manager or trying to negotiate terms with your tenant to make trades for the care of the home so that they try to take better care.

I currently am so if you wanted to bounce some ideas off each other let me know.I've also done some equity trading, more specifically covered call option writing.

I think as investors its important for us to put a scary face on it than a rosy "your gonna get rich" face that has sparked the rush to the RE Trade.

On daily basis, there are hundreds and thousands of work being done in all trades at the same time.