I was an investor when I met my significant other, so she understands what I'm doing and doesn't think I'm taking too many risks.I think the best way to help get her onboard is involve her in the process.

@Jacob Simac, congrats on your recent arrival to BP Nation happy to have you on board.  

If assignment of contract is used as the main flipping method (*not all states permit it) it avoids the costs which occur in doubling closing,Of course there are nervous Nellies and doubting Thomases - which is why not everyone will get on board the gravy train.

I wouldn't mind starting out managing my own properties, then expanding to managing other people's properties, and once I meet my capacity and feel as though I have built effective systems, bringing someone else on board to handle most of the responsibilities. 

I have found many landlords are not aware, but once they are - are generally onboard and willing to rent to the homeless veterans.

@Derrick WortmanIt’sPossible but you will pay through the nose as Ohio land contracts now are basically going away and if it’s a note and you fail to perform it costs a lot and takes a while to forecloseYour best bet would be to bring a partner on board and JV the deal with them.

Eventually, after seeing enough success, they all jumped on board though.

The sales person who will try to onboard you to using Evolve will give you a great sell, as they did me.

Love seeing what other like minded people have their focus on in the upcoming year.My 2020 goals are:move to Louisville (from NY)find job in Louisvillepay off all credit card debtsave for 20% down paymentkeep learning as much as I can on buy & hold single fam housesread 12 bookswant to buy my first property but also don’t want to rush it, need the gf on board as well (working on that, it’s going well) so if that’s not 2020 it’s definitely 2021

@Tenzin Wangchuk 35% is pretty good (lots of folks saving 0% out there...)One nice method I once heard of getting other people on board with an idea is to look at their top priorities (for example, being able to buy good food, nice clothing, splurge on things here and there and the security of having extra money to spend, etc. ) and try to show them the benefit of the concept to their priority.