Spray or regular insulation?

Quicken is probably better for a first time home buyer or a regular retail buyer.

You can pay cash for your purchase to give you the competitive edge in purchasing and then roll your buys into either a portfolio loan or regular mortgage. 

The Cook County Human Rights Ordinance: This ordinance prohibits people in Cook County (including employers, landlords, property managers, real estate agents, store and restaurant owners, bankers, lenders and Cook County government officials and employees) from unlawfully discriminating against or harassing other people on the basis of that person's race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status, source of income (including use of a housing choice voucher), housing status, or gender identity.

Depending on how your taxes are set up, a CPA could recommend forming an LLC or an S-Corp (from a legal standpoint, they offer identical protection, but could offer differing benefits from a tax standpoint).   

We're trying to do the 'right thing' (for us) by catering to this market, but sheesh... it's certainly not like advertising a regular rental.

We regularly purchase properties that give us well over 12% cash on cash returns (usually in the 100s of %).

I look at a lot of deals on a regular basis and only seem to find deals with 8% cap rates in the "hood" or in areas that have very little going on in them economically. 

So this means at month 48, you'd be able to invest the regular $180,000 plus an additional $200,000 from the cumulative earnings from the previous 8 syndication deals.  

And how do people that don't have a regular salary (self-employed or full-time real estate investors) do it?