They depend mostly on word of mouth referrals for future business.

It certainly wasn’t necessary but was a way to build rapport for future deals.  

My preference is positive cash flow from day one with future upside. 

@Dee CulversonWelcome to BP, and congratulations on making the decision to invest in your future via real estate.I have written a few blog posts that may help you get started here on BP, and with your investing.

Glad to hear your investing in your future.

hey, new to this site, amazing work you are doing here, every time i step in to ask a question i got ton of valueable responses, really great. i have suggestion i think can benefit everybody, having the ability to "star" a message in the forums.many times i read through the forum finding a really good insightful post, which has many things i would like to keep in mind for the future, i would have been great if it was able to mark/star the post and have a page with links to all the posts i previously starred. something to keep in mind..

I look forward to the future!

Instead of putting 50k in the stock market they can put it into a house where they'll receive 50% cash flow and 50% profit from future sale of house. 

But according to Forbes and other local predictions that by 2050 that there is going to be a million people here in the Treasure Valley.As always we can't predict the future.

In future I will allows be projecting the worst possible scenario.