Yesterday would certainly have been the optimal time to invest.

Where’s the optimization of productivity in that system?

I had to spend extra money to make repairs, replace tenants, raise rents, and get the property at a optimal condition before I saw my first positive cash-flow.

Anyone else find more pessimism than optimism out there?

If you can finance using private lenders (friends, family, business contacts, co-workers, friends of friends, other contacts) on 10 year notes at 7-8% (20-30 year amort), then that would be optimal.

The ONLY advantage us "meat sacks" have right now is form, we have more optimized form for function. 

Get a good web service like investor carrot and either hire someone to optimize it or learn it yourself lile I did. 

One of the three partners lives in Detroit - he's agreed to be the property manager and live in one of the properties if that's optimal. 

Hoping to optimize our tax savings with cost segregation bonus depreciation and utilize the tax code to its fullest advantage.

Hoping to optimize our tax savings with cost segregation bonus depreciation and utilize the tax code to it's fullest advantage.