The easiest way to add rocket fuel to your buy-and-hold portfolio is to buy properties that have more equity to start (eg: buy under market).  

Originally posted by @Walter Aaron Poling:@Shawn McGarityI can answer this with personal experience.

Use your job to fuel your passion in real life, outside of books and podcasts.

What I've learned is that 1-2% deals elsewhere typically have to be 3+% deals in that market as I generally have to include heating fuel, which can be an enormous expense.

I didn't use a fishing pole, or a hook, or fishing line".That sounds impressive right?

The bull market seems to be ending in stocks, I think RE will fare far better with low mortgage rates but I still wouldn't touch more volitile assets like luxury condos with a 5 foot pole.

They have about 200 billion dollars worth of real estate projects to be completed by 2012, their immigration rate is staggering, fuel is extra cheap down there (26 cents a liter, translates to a little over a dollar a gallon).

So far entergy was coming in such a high price. high price now they say because of potential income i can get the poles and cable to  my meter base discounted almost no cost.   10 to 15 pads on nice rectangle lot, next to new pond we dug outdoor camping.. 

Utility taps for multifamily are exponential and if it is truly raw land then ridiculous prices to have the electric company put in the big poles to service the park.  

Big burly guys that smell like diesel fuel, drive jacked up 4x4s, chew tobacco for breakfast and have neck tats.