Its a struggle this business and hard work and sometimes for years you don't see the fruits of your labor but keep at it.

@Tom Ott,Thank you for the kind wishes, I might check in your area if my current ideas do not bear fruit.

Make sure you put a value on your time because being your own agent/GC/laborer can seem like an attractive way to juice profits on flips/but has an opportunity cost to go with it because there will be no way for you to scale the business (if that's what you want to do) while wearing all of those trade hats.  

It's easy to "juice" your cap-rate if you just defer a little maintenance here and there so I plan to inherit a few issues.  

I realize expireds is truly low hanging fruit in this business. 

If you're interested in juicing your rents a bit, try buying a condo in a great area, furnishing it and renting to traveling nurses or business people.

I intentionally leave room for more Fannie loans for future use, but I use them aggressively to juice the returns.  

Can you show me yours to get my creative juices flowing?

This would be the low hanging fruit.

By my standards (admittedly high) the few rehab deals I got so far didn't have any real juice in them.