Lesson I've learned...Never rent to a stripper...The one dollar bills take forever to count and frankly its frigging hard to concentrate on counting anyway.

I have taken note of your activities and will pick and concentrate on a few to start with.

With that said, there are many real estate products that the real estate investor can buy and implement in their business that can help with automation and free up time to concentrate on other areas of their business.

With that budget size I would concentrate on out of state absentee owners.  

Highly concentrated letters to specific properties could work but the mass marketing style of attack has come and gone in regards to its usefulness. 

Need to get back there so I can concentrate on picking up properties faster.4.

Instead of wasting time and energy on comparing yourself to the 'typical household', I encourage you to concentrate on making moves that will help you progress to where you want to be in X number of years. 

In my market, I concentrate on REO deals, so I don't have the same options that Michael does.

As a flipper who looks for equity I use the following to help.1- Days on Market - Im always looking for the lowest days2- High concentration of equity property - 40% or more SFR3- High concentration of pre-foreclosures 4- High concentration of 60-119 Mortgage Late Property5- Areas which sells for 2/3 of city median value or less6- Lowest number of housing per areaThis data can be compiled using Trulia.com, a foreclosure data site, credit bureau and Listsource.comIt will take you a while however the numbers tell a story..

I have been involved since November 2015 and I've been concentrating on education.