After all, I enjoy getting checks monthly - but it would nice to cash in a fat check once in while too.Question 2 - Networking is key to finding good deals - MLS can have some good deals periodically - but the best deals are going to come from a distressed situation that you find out about through word of mouth - and that means staying in front of your network and growing it so that you are exposed to new situations and opportunities.

You can have an answering machine that sends cash buyers to message a) then credit buyers to message b) and then maybe credit with fat down pmt buyers to message c) You pay a little bit for patlive to set up a secretary that filters your calls and pretty soon you have a prospecting machine to stop all this nonsense that you might go through on a Saturday when you would rather be at the park with your boy. patlive is just an example you could use any type of virtual live secretarial service to accomplish what im talking about.

And he is fat.

All my tenants just want the appliances to work, none have cared that the stove was white while the refrigerator was almond and/or the dishwasher was black.

Because if you have gotten an investor mortgage today means you have impeccable credit.. you want to keep it that way.. so you want to have room to exit and keep your credit intact without having to write a big fat check. 

If you've got a fat enough down payment, HML is of course also an option. 

I use equity as closing costs, down payment, and cash out the rest in a fat check at closing.

Aaron I believe his work is expensive primarily b/c his skilled labor costs are high, not because he's making a fat margin.  

Wholesalers outright lie about ARVsRealtors will inflate the values to try and get listings...If you expect to use a wholesaler to source deals (they typically take the fat off most deals) and a realtor to verify the ARVs expect to do a few flips for free or at a loss.Don't get me wrong, good realtors and wholesalers are out there.....just like unicorns.

Then one day, in place of my beautiful plants was a very fat and satisfied green horn worm.