Bingo..You got them...smart thinking = smart marketing 

I am looking to start buying homes near my apartment complex to expand my portfolio.. here is where I need your help.. my 16 year old son is starting to look at college courses.. we had a talk today about earned income and passive income.. i was explaining to him that even though my cleaning company was successful ( 13 girls cleaning over 100 houses a week) that I had a limit to how much i could earn based on how many hours me and my girls could work.. but with passive income it could be so much more.. he is so smart.. and me and my husband both own our own company's.. but I would much rather he get started now with real estate investing than spend 4 years and $100,000 on school loans to not use his degree in his field ( which I see a lot of my friends kids doing.. they go to school and spend 4 years and $100,000 and end up doing something unrelated to their major)..

There are smart motivated people who made the other half of that decision for reasons of their own.

Well, I recently attended the rally, got into the 3 day seminar which hasn't happened yet. ( next weekend) I would advise smart people to read here first, leave checkbook and cards.

If average CAP rates for an area indicate that a property appears to be waaaay under valued based on rental income, my assumption it does not guarantee a smart deal right? 

With a good size family to support I'm going to have to start small and smart.

God bless technology :-).

Feel free to reach out if I can help you with anything; take care and invest smart!

And as a good business person, they have to protect themselves by making smart loans.If you want better rates or easier loans, I would suggest trying to tap into your personal network first. 

I'm a former contractor, specializing in "green" technologies and efficient energy use retrofits.