Any real estate ventures would be things I consider fun where I can participate in some fashion without doing the bulk of the work and I would derive some autonomy, mastery, and purpose goals from.  

I would suggest Lexis,  it's a very powerful search engine, or if not the good old fashion way knock on their door!

Typical Miami fashion!

That comes when you've started looking at properties you could actually buy and you start over analyzing because you're afraid to pull the trigger.I experienced this in a different fashion when we bought a property and we were gutting our first kitchen and I didn't want to pull the trigger because I was a little afraid of just ripping everything out and what would actually happen.

Hi Chris,RTO and Lease with option and Land Contract and Contract for Deeds are old fashioned midwestern and east coast staple tools.I personally know of hundreds that have been turned into 30 yr fixed mortgages.Now you could call The Republic of California "Mars", and you could call the midwest "Venus" as far as creative financing that actually is common place that actually gets funded.Just ask @Wendy Patton.

Yes, one of my agents has been dong this for some time now and I have even showed it in un completed fashion to a few agents with buyers.

My before and after were like art work to me.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I give my cell numbers to my tenants.

They have had a lot of success using the good old-fashioned telephone systematically.

I am finding that good old fashioned relationship building seems to yield the most favorable funding methods.