I recently got my graduate degree and i got a job in my field which i love but my first love would always be investing - real estate investing to be precise :). 

I came across a colored chart b Trilia that showed the rate of return for a rental property and middle of the country and upper great lake region have high rates of return.

(See related chart on 2.)

I am an investor living in the South Willamette Valley, Eugene to be precise.

I was hoping that you might share a more systematic, precise way of determining cap rates that you might have come up with.

(The question, more precisely I think, is -  What would you do with $20K in regard to real estate that would generate the best return or cash flow?)

I'm a visual person, so I built a simple, but powerful chart that I look at every day that shows my progress towards my goal. 

So maybe the chart blows up after mid 2015, where all your "boat load" (10%.. 50%?)

It could have been condensed to a few chapters with a few charts and the life audit form in back.

Provide him with one of the apartment units with half the rentSet out a price chart for each type of work order and then pay him monthly based on the work orders my management team receives.