With your balance sheet and cash, you can put together creative deals without giving up equity and without using your cash but you are going to need to find a market and product which has 7-8% cap rates.I invest in the northeast, Great Lakes area.Diverse economies with education, healthcare as the back bone and tech as growth.In your area, you’ll have to raise way more capital in the form of equity just to meet DSCR with the banks.

If all things are equal consider who responds most timely and do so with a professional tone, text, and/or email? 

Thank you I’m going to need it, happy new year to you!

Based on this some elements of my REI strategy are going to need to be adapted!

Also if you know they’re likely to need reservations at certain restaurants I would make a note of that on the menu.

@Kevin Collins well I apologize if it comes off condescending, it is difficult to translate 'tone' in a forum but at the end of the day you are in a forum seeking out advice...

Luka, its hard on a 2-dimensional forum to get the full tone, but I think most if not all of the posters on here root for each other no matter what advice is followed. 

Generally, if you're going the MLS route you're going to need to put a bit of work into it. 

If you had to pick one relationship-building tactic that you believe would really set the tone for your brand’s culture, what would it be? 

If you have a first mortgage at 95%, you’re going to need cash to build.