@Nate O.From those of us who are just beginning to educate ourselves, practice deals and one day begin to build our portfolios, thank you for lending your experiences as inspiration, motivation, and an illustration of the focus it will take to reach for the things that you promise yourself and the goals you are diligent to achieve.

Fortunately, there is an easy method based on elimination, not selection.The process is illustrated below.

However, you are illustrating my point.

But hey, if you get 20 calls from putting out 2,500 door hangers (0.8% response rate) - at a cost of say $525 (a bit high, for illustration) - your cost per call is $525 / 20 = $26.25 -- I will take that ALL DAY LONG. 4) I don't doubt Michael's strategy for a second.

In the end, when we pulled out our spreadsheets he was a little confused, assuming that the emotional pull of the property would do the job.I say this to illustrate the point that this very excellent and talented agent was not investor friendly.

However . . . in the short time I've invested I've already seen twists, turns, spikes, and lulls that have illustrated the many different advantageous exit opportunities we are likely to see over an investing career, so now I'd say that it seems likely that I'll trade into a larger or newer property at some point in the next 15-20 years, and I suppose if my loan product makes that advantageous then I'll simply build it into the plan.That said, paying them off and owning them outright works too!

But what this illustrates is that it's not the size of the firm that dictates your experience. 

These are all from the MLS - better deals are off-market I'm sure, but I wanted to illustrate my point that these are publicly available. 1.

These are based on my experiences and may not all apply to you- but I think you'll get some value (even if it's 1-2 ideas).The numbers are only for illustration.  

Hi Tamara -That schedule was an illustrative example of not having to choose between one niche to find leads on properties, aligned with the old adage "he who casts the widest net catches the most fish."