As long as that cook prepared all the ingredients in the stew, that cook made it, if it's good or bad he gets the credit.

It's not too late.Time is the most important ingredient in RE investing, but given you have been in the workforce long enough I believe you should have some money saved up for either cash purchases or very large down payments as well as good credit.I'm also guessing you have access to some better deals since you have been a realtor for 5 years. 

I'm an IT guy by day (architect - 20 years in IT), so leveraging technology has been the main ingredient in enabling us to scale our RE business, while still maintaining our day jobs.

In all of our house flips, we estimate six months from purchase to sale, but factor in a few additional months of expenses to make sure we profit on each and every flip we do.SummaryContrary to what many think, rapidly appreciating markets are not a necessary ingredient for house flipping success.

To get Success, add the ingredients of hard work and direction.

@Geoffrey Robinson One of the main ingredients to wholesaling is that the person that is actually going to close, put in the work and resell, should be the one making most of the profit.

It looks like Glidden makes the colorplace paint, as I found its spec sheet on glidden's website, and the ingredients are lower quality/quantity.I bet if you got blue behr premiumplus paint, it would cover equally well.Those who say "get sherwin williams" without specifying which line are not helping.Their lineup is huge-http://www.sherwin-williams.com/painting-contractors/products/catalog/shelf/interior-paint-coatings/paint-coatings/?

Time is the most important ingredient in Real estate investing. 

The process of mixing these ingredients together forms a slurry that you can pour into molds.

Before you can be creative in financing you must first know conventional financing, there are rules and laws, you can't just dump out a box of ideas or agreements and expect something to work, you build the financing transactions just like you prepare a meal, one ingredient at a time ensuring each is added at the right time, just enough to provide the intended results while keeping within a legal and ethical framework.You're never going to paint a master piece with a paint by numbers set. :)