The reality is messy and it's a muddled combination of all three.I had the huge benefit to start in 2008, not sure if I could pull it off again in today's market.

That, combined with a couple other factors, has me confident that it will get the top rent in the area for any multifamily unit!

We're in 5 other markets and all together I spend less than 5 hours a week combined on our other properties.

The deal was financed through a combination of private funds from our Partner Driven capital resources and contributions from our partner, Archie Raglin.

Hopefully combining these 2 strategies while enable me to get my first deal done soon.

Forced appreciation combine with rent increases make it a very lucrative strategy. 

Minimum qualifications that I typically look for with tenants are a 600-620 credit score, need to be making at least 2.5-3x the monthly rent in combined income (verify their employment by making a call/googling), and I don't like to see any previous evictions/certain felonies for background check.

When done right, Facebook can go neck and neck with any other lead-gen method out there.If you have the ability or the budget, building out a proper SEO strategy should be a top priority.Google PPC is highly effective but the truth is most investors without a hefty advertising budget can’t or shouldn’t spend their dollars there.What are you doing right now to generate leads?  

The power of REI in todays market is delayed gratification  combines with the tax benefits the following year. 

Then combine that with talking to other people in these meetups and I think you'll start to gravitate to one idea over some others and then just start figuring out what you need to do to make that happen.