Its the same thing in cheap markets were they sell say 130k new construction.. those deals usually have 10 to 15% gross margins so they are making 13 to maybe 20k if they are really lucky net profit but getting good leverage and pumping out 50 in a year.We will build about 40 homes this year.. so while we don't hit homeruns we make it up in volume and god willing the market holding and the star's aligning and every other lucky charm we can pull .Like @Will Barnard even though it was an outlier for us we did a 5 million dollar flip and made 1.5 on it.. but that was not something we could recreate .. and I don't have the stones to do that these days.. with my cheaper homes I know my bank will let me make them into rentals if they don't sell and with the rents the way they are they would cash flow or be a tiny bit negative as we rode out the market... 

Banana, Plaintains, Papaya and Star fruit are already fruiting. 

Kim Meredith Hampton gets the star for now.

If you don't have all the money or all the stars have to line up to be able to purchase be ready to drop tens of thousands or more in non-refundable earnest money of your own.

For example, I just saw he put two five star hotel units in LV under contract within 10 days of listing as regular resales.

This definitely a high stakes game You will meet a lot of NBA all-stars on Bigger PocketsI did not realize how addicting rehab work was until I recently visited two other legitimate investors project and dearly wanted to be back into the gameIt makes me feel like I did when I played sports as a youngster~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~slam dunks – deals generating over 48ktriple double – deals generating over 33kdouble – double figures ~ deals over 24kLarry Bird baseline jumper all day long – deals generating 14kEnough of basketball fever ,,I would definitely agree purchase a great deal for yourself (homestead residence), look into obtaining yourreal estate license , attend your local REI Club meetings ,stay positive and focuswww.biggerpockets.com/forums/223/topics/76909www.biggerpockets.com/forums/21/topics/76598www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/76427www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/75610www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/75604

That said, I'm really looking for honest recommendations as I swear amazon authors must have friends pimp their own books and write 1 star for every competitors book.

You know what's best about shooting for the stars, Tiara?

The biggest benefit by teaming up with me when you've got a deal and just don't know how to execute it is, I know how to execute it, I've got the proven team members in place and have the ability to walk the walk and I'm not skeered to do it :mrgreen: The only 3 processors I would even consider handling my short sales are James Ward, Scott Hubbard and my star student who is know officially a Rockstar!

Congrats Josh -You are a Web 2.0, niche community building rock star.