True you can't save your way to riches, but the mindset shift and cost savings dry powder will set you up for success👍 

I can do a fixed-rate second loan on an investment property known as a HELOAN but the HELOC market for investment properties has dried up a bit in recent months.You can check out Nick's recommendation or feel free to shoot me a message to learn more about a HELOAN.Hope this helps!

We added some paint, installed some ceiling fans, patched up some dry wall and a door that someone punched through, and did a little deep cleaning in the master bath.

If you can keep as much of that dry powder as possible, you will be able to really find the best opportunities.

Unfortunately, I dont have enough dry powder to do both to any meaningful degree. 

Don't even bother with the NYC market and its 5 borough because it's dried up and over saturated with investors.

So Account Closed you just use diff sub contractors for every different job you have such as concrete and dry wall and everything else?

I charge $2.00 to wash and $1.50 to dry.

After the JC dries, you sand with foam-backed 100-grit, the purple 3M stuff is far and away the best.

The prospective equity partner is a friend of mine that has been interested in doing RE deals with me for sometime, and my plan is to use this as dry run for future larger syndications with multiple outside partners.