I spend an average of about 15 minutes per day doing entry and reconciliation.For example, in addition to all the entries from my flipping business, I have 500+ transactions per month of book sales (I fulfill about half of my book sales myself, and each is a COGS entry); I have all the journal entries for my all my rental property income/expenses; I have a product business where we have hundreds of entries per month of sales, and because we build/assemble/package our own products, we have many hundreds of assembly/inventory entries each month (I use QB to keep track of inventory); and then I have hundreds of personal transaction entries per month for all my bills and credit card purchases.And this is across 5 different Quickbooks (and 1 Quicken) account, and 11 different bank accounts. 

I have contacts in my investing group who are connected to manufacturers of modular homes - not "manufactured" (trailers), modular: homes are stick-built in pieces in a factory, the pieces are shipped to the home site on flat bed trucks and assembled onto the foundation.

My hurdle in assembling a team is finding a lender who is willing to be creative, and understand our PSLF payments to see WHY we can invest now. 

New investors sometimes spend a lot of time trying to learn how to set up their business, assemble their team, set up their systems... all of which are great and necessary eventually, and they make you feel busy, but none of them actually make you money.

I'd suggest talking to loan officers at the smaller local banks in the Triad - they will have more flexibility in their underwriting criteria than the big banks, might be willing to spend more time with you assembling a good loan if he or she feels a relationship can develop, and will be more in touch with the local marketplace.

Also, I'm currently looking to assemble a team (attorney, CPA, escrow agent, etc) so if anyone has recommendations for those they're also welcome 

My goals for this post are to:- Introduce myself- Connect with others operating in beautiful Northwest Arkansas- Begin assembling my network of service providers- Accelerate my learning curve If you fall into any of these areas, please connect with me.Respectfully,Jeff Rice

Those are great to assemble IKEA cabinets and shelves.

When entirely assembled, the question that I have not yet heard a valid answer for, looks like this...   

They were meaningful to me as objects - I spent a lot of my young boy days assembling the collection of Mantles, Mays, Clementes, and the like - and they've experienced massive appreciation, which is nice.