Therefore, the reason mortgage rates have gone down 1.5%~ or so over the last three months is due to the bond market pricing in this cut and future cuts.

Even without any interest rate cuts. 

Prime is currently 7.75% and likely to drop by 1-3% during this fed cut cycle over the next 1-3 years.  

Russ has a lot of creative solutions and uses established case law to work in ways that some of the more "cut & dry" intermediaries do not.

So if you have $150,000 to invest you can make $9,000 annually.Most people will never retire from owning Real Estate unless they substantially cut their cost of living. 

The closest I've come to your situation is similar to one in which a tenant wanted to cut the grass, for which he wanted to get a reduction in his rent.

Also this property has a small 8 acre tract cut out of it with residential homes on it.So my question, what is my first step to get this property looked at to see its potential.

Do that for a year or two and then help that owner buy another and you take a cut in the deal maybe in exchange for management. 

You can go over cost vs time all you want but at the end of the day, for me anyways... doing the stamp licking, printing cutting etc... just sucked big time and I'd be a very happy man if I never did it again. 

His lawyer said no , but he said that 5 million was a good number . he tossed the keys across the table , told her to open the gates at 5 am and warm up the trucks , and a whole list of things , and to cut him a check for 5 million .