Could you have your cake and eat it too?

Like you said, if it's a deal, finding a buyer is a piece of cake. 

This takes the cake though, COMPLETELY caught off guard here.

Appreciation is icing on the cake. 

Portfolio:A duplex in Oklahoma city - 100% occupiedA half-duplex in Oklahoma city - 100% occupied for more than 1% ruleAn SFR in Casper, WY - occupied by family at a good rate with very little vacancy riskA townhome in Anaheim Hills, CA 3BR/3BA that has been our primary residenceWe just received an offer to move to the Denver area where my company's second largest office resides.

I'm up to 5 houses, nothing crazy, but brings in a good chunk of change and the appreciation is icing on the cake.

Instead of buying flour, eggs, and sugar and making and selling cakes for profitYou bought a crappy house, materials, contractor labor and are selling a nicer house for profit

You can also buy the recipe in the form of the course, and you can learn how to use the recipe, learn finesse in your methods and turn out a way prettier cake faster by going to the boot camp they offer or the hand holding from coaching.Note the person who is going to be successful in real estate will be successful, not from any training, but from within themselves.

I recommend buying for cash flow, appreciation, if it comes, should be icing on the cake.

She cannot have her cake and eat it too.