If you're looking to create systems from the ground up that revolve around how you want to work, then I would recommend using Podio.

The main reasons are:1)Most people, my self included, underestimate just how difficult it is for a small to find a good team on the ground in the location you want to invest.

I'm in the phase that @Joseph Norman recommends- finding a stable neighborhood.

If you look at the prior two cycles, you can see each of these indicators reach a peak during the middle of the cycle, then decelerate (grow at a decreasing rate) as the expansionary phase of the economic cycle comes to an end.

Your current employer should be your farming ground.

As others have said you have to have a team on the ground that you can trust. 

I am looking to do what is called lease options, wholesaling real estate locally after which doing phasing later into virtual wholesaling.  

They are only a few inches (3 -6) above the ground on post and pier.

I have been on BP for a few weeks and just moved up to "PRO"  but never really posted on here as a new investor.   I am a guy looking to grow in REI.  I am a Realtor in Texas, and I want to get into flipping and whole...

Stand your ground.