.-- Look for opportunities to recapitalize, either by raising private money (unlikely this early on) or "collateral assignment" loans to borrow at, maybe 7.5% while re-lending at 15%.-- I keep doing this until I go from $60 a month to $830 a month, which would take 28 investments assuming they were all $5k notes yielding net 7.5%.

Cash for keys is as quickly as is realistic, so you and the tenant would decide on that privately

The buyer pulled a fast one at closing ended up getting a mortgage from a private party. 

Im getting an error when I try to respond to some of you who have sent me a private message. 

Usually, an open and honest conversation, along with the moxie to enforce the terms of the rental agreement, works.

I'm a little nervous about the whole auction thing, whether a private auction or a sheriff's sale.

I use private money or hard money or my own cash and buy the house at the negotiated price. 

You can look towards investing within private mortgage corporations but their underlying assets will, in all likelihood, be in Canada. 

Image if I had 30, just 3 x those numbers.Directly investing in a turnkey rental or small MFH is a good way to start to learn and build up the war chest to go into my scaleable investments such as private placement syndications.

Hard money, private lenders and bringing in a partner are other options.