It is management intensive, as is the nature of the business, but there may be money to me made.

Insurance offloads natural risk to 3rd parties.For investment properties banks usually require 20 to 30% down. which protects their risk of loss.

But if there are natural hardwoods, I refinish them.

They get stuck in massive debt and fight to keep from going under.Had they taken another path and invested into great properties with equity growth they might be sitting on 1,000,000 total net worth in 3 years getting a nice income stream to supplement.

While I agree with many others on this thread that you cannot ignore traditional means of getting business, I think social media ads are a great (and cheap) way to supplement your business.So, to answer your original question, I'll post to social media less and focus my time on the ads I want to run to generate leads.

Naturally I'd also be renting the house out, but I'd like to be able to cover all costs myself to keep this plan concrete.Any thoughts?

I had an inspector state that there were two natural springs under the crawl space of one of my homes I’m selling.

So naturally, I decided to JV with another investor.Problem is, when I gave first right of purchase to my cash buyer (JV partner #2), he didn't respond until two days later which in that time I found JV partner #1 and now my buyer (JV partner #2) wants to JV with me also.It's only been about 5 days since I signed the contract with my seller so obviously I have more than enough time to market and find my own buyer (45 days).So now, what do I do if one or both of my JV partners finds a cash buyer for my deal?

However, the other common promoters of these types of investments are institutional in nature and have both the legal counsel and likely the license to be able to weather the storm if the nature of note is contested.  

But if you are dealing in straight option contracts in Texas, keep in mind the options can't exceed 180 days or they become executory in nature and fall under a whole different set of rules.