Your contribution is labor and management, that alone can't run a company, he's your goose laying the golden egg and you're shaving it up, molding it for a profit but now you don't want to feed the goose.If you're working too much, hire help, build a company instead of a job. 

With the amount of traffic I generate from craigslist, zillow, trulia, facebook, even social serv, I figure I'd be golden by now!

I prefer working through agents who know what they are doing.. just have to find the good one's that is the trick. good ones who deal in distressed assets have a very short rolodex of buyers.. once your on it your golden

Pentagon federal credit union does them, America First Credit union and Golden West did investment property HELOCs for a while, but might have since switched to owner-occupied only, you'd have to call and ask.

It’s so hard to find good deals & cash flow in bako for flips or buy & hold rentals, so if you can get that permitting & contractor process dialed in, you’re golden. 

If the numbers are close, then I know I’m golden.

The execs on the other hand remind me of the old line "then let them eat cake"I hold this right up there with golden parachutes

Ah, the Golden Rule...

I want to stop working someday and thus I won't kill the golden goose.

I now beleive in myself, because I do bring value to the table since I no longer have to win, but instead have fun.Cool---proving out the golden rule!