Now let’s get to the meat and potatoes.

All in cost w/ land/loan/hard and soft costs come in at $145-170 a foot for your standard meat and potatoes apartments.  

Stack up on the mac and cheese, collard greens, get some chickens, grow some potatoes.  

Speaking to people is not evidence, and your opinion that you are looking at the big picture while the rest of us play with our potatoes is demeaning.

Do not get yourself all excited over someone else doing a flip and making $40K and expect that somehow that is going to happen for you through osmosis.  

Why do people think it is ok to shove a 12" celery stalk and a half a potato down the sink when the garbage can is 4' away? 

I got continuous traffic, albeit small potatoes, but besides the joy of meeting interesting people and hosting, the greatest benefit was 5 months of data and good reviews (thanks to my Tito’s Margarita recipe!).

I had started the process before I even bought them so I was able to refinance quickly after I closed (and got to take advantaged of the recent rate drops -- I'm at 6%)But the meat and potatoes  (I'll use round numbers, but they're within a few %)The group was $5mI sold #4 for $1.5mMy Freddie loan was $3.5mSo I'm left being in the deal with no #.  

I dumped my homes like hot potatoes and during the next 20 years of my working life increased my net worth to $36 million minus 2 million I already had = $34 million or I made $1.7 million every year for the last 20 years and I am not a real estate broker, or agent.You can still purchase 4+ unit properties for $80,000 to $100,000 per  unit in many parts of the country and you have all the advantages stated in the prior post, or take your blind chances with negative cashflow, high priced single family homes, purchase properties through brokers who can't get a grasp on 5th-grade math and maybe the sun will shine up your butt, too!

Potato" "Potaato".