We have several clients that do this, with or without employees.Feel free to reach out, we work with many real estate investors in this capacity.

the good thing about RE is .... it's easiest way to print money.but when you print it, you have to pay tax.if you want to defer it, then you go to another rabbit hole.you could also do something like this.lets say yourcapital gain is 1 Milyour primary is 1Mil with equity 500k.1031 your rental to another location where you wanna liveSell your primary tax free first 500kthen move to that rental home for forever after rented for two years.Lot of options!

Feel free to reach out and we can discuss. 

In my opinion this is something that can be self taught (along with free help/advice).

I want a free and clear title. another property down the road, vacant, owners I can’t find and probably aren’t citizens of US.

.- Get a property subject to where you take over payments for a loan with lower interestfeel free to reach out and discuss some ideas

You may be able to find a local bank that would hold the note if you bought it outright, but anything under $50k and most times under $75k is hard to borrow against...it's just too low for a bank to make any money without triggering usury or State/Federal fee limits like they mentioned.

I think the answer is for multiple reasons: analysis paralysis, bandwidth, or just simply failure to pull the trigger.

Check out the Free Beginners Guide this should give you some ideas.Also check out posdcast #25 where four new investors talk about how they got started.

Feel free to reach out with future questions. - Chris Kersey