The main thing is making sure your investments produce a return that outweighs the cost of the borrowed money.A full cash-out refinance could work down the line, but with rates where they are, you’d be trading a 6.25% ARM for something likely higher, now that it is not an owner-occupied property, which may not be worth it unless you really need the capital to scale.

And how is wholesaling brokering given; Wholesalers are engaging in contract trading for a profit margin(arbitrage) and brokers are providing professional services, facilitating transactions for a commission while obligated to act in clients’ best interests?

Past trade measures show that such tariffs have raised construction costs by about 5–10% in affected regions.

My other background for 15 years now is in the trading world.

I've been an independent contractor in Springfield, Illinois for 8 months and have been a trades contractor for the last 4 years.

In construction your plans are your Bible, so you need to know how to locate any discrepencies, locate answers to questions froms trades, understanding "Take-offs" with your materials, and be able to visualize in a 3D space what the plans are describing.

That’s how I found a bookkeeper that came in at month’s end for a few hours when I owned some computer stores. 

As far as hiring the other trades, this can be difficult from a distance, who is helping locally?

There’s no chance I would trade my 10 well performing homes for 50 or 100 homes to get the same income before the increased taxes and repairs/vacancies, etc etc. 

And they are not working for pennies—many are earning $40 an hour or more in skilled trades like construction, landscaping, and specialized farming."