The latest agent I am working with is showing us properties that are in up and coming areas and have already been rehabbed but essentially break even or net $100 a month (265k price points and appreciation would be expected.)We are struggling with continuing to buy retail properties for how much it eats your capital for small amounts of cash flow.  

They usually charge a flat fee for a determined map boundary area, and then more if beyond.On the driver note, I tried to get my adult daughter interested in Uber or even Uber eats. 

The Bible says if a man “ won’t work “ he shouldn’t get to eat .

A deal that size is certainly worth it if you can get a large enough return on your money, but HOAs eat profit for breakfast, although some investors make it work.

“Rich” could be a large sum of money, while I imagine wealth as you describe it, to bring that passive income, like trees growing, vs a hamburger that is only good for a bit, but once you eat half of it, the other half is only going to last for so long.

Any charge that would eat up reserve funds would either come in the form of an invoice or go on a credit card to be expensed so I can't imagine needing "immediate" access to funds.Thanks for your thoughts!

Depending on your situation, I would either refinance and just eat the difference or sell and make a small profit and then move on to the next one.

Can someone help guide me in a direction where I dare say "have my cake and eat it too"?

The auctions here will eat you alive.

The big fish can't eat it if they can't see it, ya know?