A great chef may publish a recipe, but that chef always leaves out a key ingredient or two.You are going to pay for the training either way: either through mistakes you make trying to discover those missing ingredients on your own through a series of flops, or paying a pro to share those secret ingredients with you. 

There's three major ingredients to a transaction....a qualified buyer, a house/real estate, cash or access to a loan.

I really hope I don't get "labelled" on here as being a sales person because that is seriously not why I am here.

I am not sure why a lebeling is necessary or who has the authority to make such labels, but "job" or "investing, makes no difference to me what anybody wants to call it.Anytime I "invest" my cash into RE or anything else where I expect a return, I consider that an investment.

One can be a part of a deal without any of their own cash,,,, if they have an abundance of the other ingredients; knowledge, hard work, desire to succeed, a big network...

We're near Whole Foods""I just use Lyft to get to work""It's a lot quieter""I love the BBQ & Beer garden""Parking is easy"It is a place that has and, I believe, will continue to be on the up and up.Every quote above is the ingredient for tech hipsters and some high prices.Now, if your buddy's place isn't dated / could collapse during the next little earthquake / on landfill, then I would certainly consider it!

That allows you to have a key ingredient to finding a quality renter - patience!  

I also picked a few sweet deals when they used to advertise their highly distressed properties with a red box around them, and the label "ALL BIDS WILL BE CONSIDERED ON THIS PROPERTY".

Yes, they called it a HELOC, so use both labels when asking. 

If you pay up you get seated on premier front seats with reserved seats and your name labeled VIP.