@Marianne Lopez-HenthornWe buy distressed notes and sometimes sprinkle in some real estate.

I've seen better areas in Afghanistan than by Temple. 1-2 blocks away and the ground looks like sprinkles with all of the crack vials.

I sprinkled a couple 15 year loans in with my 30 year loans a few years back.

Yes it's just postcards (we sprinkle in some yellow letters that our kids help with) but the key is to get the mail out EVERY WEEK...Not sure where to get a foreclosure list since we don't mail to them - our best lists are vacant houses, absentee owners, and our follow-up list - I like chasing deals that no one else knows about...just a thought - good luck!

I mean everything works properly and all but just straight up ghetto looking.As an experiment and from a suggestion from a slum lord we decided to sprinkle some carpet fresh down clean the stove and turned it over to section 8. 

Lets get all the bad tenants together, pool their higher rental payments  into one big payout with a over market return, add a sprinkling of 800 credit scores in there to add legitimacy, then sell the income stream for a quick payout right away......what...sounds like what?

Yes or NoThat's the 2nd question...Answer these first 2 questions then proceed with creating long term pivotal strategy, with sprinkles of the short term strategy in between.Geo factor is great, but in certain cases, out of area investment in real estate is a lot better, less stress where you do not even have to be the landlord and invest passively.Being landlord, is great for some, but not for others. 

Paper networth fluctuates, so please sprinkle with some grains of salt.

Same with equities, if you know the space you are investing in, you can mint a fortune and not do so well if you are simply sprinkling money around.

The gurus will tell their ra-ra fables about starting off with sunshine and sprinkles to anyone who listens, but the majority of people who have made a buck in real estate have taken some very stiff punches in the liver.