A friend approached me to help him with a property he inherited from his mom passing where a developer wanted to buy from him for commercial development.The developer after me catching everything in the contract to tie up the property with the seller asked me to work with him on the other parcels as he would rather be working with me than against me assembling the properties.Off I went after that for about 3 years in land development and then went into existing investment properties.I did things kamikaze style and figured them out on my own through the school of hard knocks.In your situation if you are focusing on apartments I would do the following.

When I get cash I convert a little into silver and gold coinage and bullion.

So, no, institutional types don't have all the tools a local broker may have.Flexibility of an indivisual dealer to do a deal is not up to the board of directors, it doesn't need corporate approval, it isn't under time constraints of the assembly line process, marketing constraints or investor demands.

i then cranked up the heat, burner assembly ignited, and when i returned an hour later - all was off including the pilot light - not sure if the water got to temperature.

Right now If I had cash I would in addition to buying real estate I would drop money into silver bullion.

Also I had decided owning gold and silver bullion is important as well, probably slowed my buying as many apts.

Online Im studying prices of silver bullion I have this feeling its going to shoot upwards in a fireworks fashion here in less then 90 days;) If I am wrong then Il keep buying like crazy if I am right I will sit on what I have and start buy another apt building.

In other words, I think I know the different puzzle pieces I just don't know how to assemble them yet.

I understand forecasting economies, financial markets, widgets off an assembly line, but there is absolutely no way any model or system is going to tell me that the water heater at 4916 S.

How should I assemble my team of winners?