No, sorry, you should find your own deals ... it is an unrealistic and unwise expectation IMO that you should be able to casually waltz into any market and pick something up right off the MLS that is going to consistently net you great returns throughout the lifetime of ownership ... such "deals" like that are ones that all of the local investors have already long since picked over and rejected, and if a property seems as such it is probably because you are not familiar with investing and/or the market and you are missing something as in the example above.

I don’t want to acquire my 1,000 units in NYC, that’s almost unrealistic. 

Obviously, that's unrealistic since there's no profit for you.The realistic alternative is for someone to buy the house and rent it to her for a profitable rent.

I've found that some people have this unrealistic view of a real estate investing business (or any business!)

But you stay in touch with the broker while the seller plays out their unrealistic price expectations with buyers who don't close.

The only issue with this plan is it will take an estimated 17 years to complete the downpayments and full-payments on these 4 properties......my estimate....So unrealistically I want to get into more delicate options such as multi-family but do so cautiously....I am researching and waiting until I can cash flow my first down payment.My question to whomever would like to respond: We plan to sell our single family home due to the fact that we would like to move closer into the city and we can either roll our equity into our next home by reducing the costs or roll this equity into possibly 2-3 down payments for single family homes and using a VA loan for our next home to avoid PMI (the devil itself).Comments and questions welcomed =)

It's a great writeup on what to expect and how to not go overboard with unrealistic expectations.

If that is the case, its likely the contractor wanted to present a very low bid, and you wanted a very low bid (i.e. both parties were being unrealistic on the original scope of work).It would be helpful if you could provide more information.

Many of these give sales pitches, gurus try to sell their products or mentoring programs, or someone tries to get you to invest in a REI Fund by a group of people pooling their money, for some REI and promising an unrealistic return.

If a client wanted me to write 30 unrealistic offers, I would do it unless they paid me.