The low hanging fruit do not hang for long.

We had 31 acres, purchased 10 steers, built a 1 acre lake which was stream fed from our stream with an island in the middle and a dock on the side, over a half-million board feet of commercial timber, a food storage room and even planted a 50 tree fruit orchard.

The thought comes to mind of encumbering both apt buildings presents a juicy fruit to the bank as they get to encumber all properties involved with some sort of blanket loan.

It's a lot of hustle but the upside is well worth it in the end when you can project the fruits of your labor into the future.

I think teaming up is great for speeding up the fruit of our labor and Biggerpockets is a great place to get to know people and learn!

Fruit Cove, FL4.

@Will Barnard Haha yes you are correct, 25k buys you a fruit stand out here in Orange County if you're lucky.

I'm hoping 2015 will be the beginning to a fruitful REI career to supplement my (hopefully) successful real estate agent career.Long story short, I'm still starting.

Hi Raymond (neighbor), thank you so very much for your warm welcome, and I definitely will be 'squeezing every juice' out of that learn tab.

., investors) tend to be more sophisticated in Atlanta than in other places, so marketing to landlords tends to be less fruitful (in my limited experience) than other forms of marketing in that area.My recommendation is to focus your marketing on homeowners with equity, whether distressed or not, and try to find locations where prices are trending up faster than homeowners recognize (so you can take advantage of some quick appreciation during a short hold period).