I was fortunate to use my design skills and digital artwork for advertising and logo design through freelancing. 

My name is Bryant Patterson, and I work at a small full-service (construction, acquisitions, management, investment sales) multifamily firm in Austin, Texas, focusing on financial analysis, pursuing construction and acquisition deals, and digital marketing.

These 5% will obviously not be enough to finance the construction but this is not an issue since developer have access to plenty of cheap bank credit to finance 75% of their costs including the land.In Mexico and other countries in a similar situation, bank credit is very expensive, as interest rates run in the double digits.

You will deal with your lender primarily by phone / email and send documents to them digitally, so their location doesn't matter all that much.

I focus my time and energy on digital advertising through our site.

Multiple have 7 digit appreciation and were purchased at high LTV so that even without the value add they would have produced great returns.I have gotten smarter about RE, but I certainly do not claim my early purchases were better than average. 

I am a sales rep for a digital advertising company in St.

But to scale beyond single digit counts, especially out of county and certainly for other asset classes like apartments, finding a good PM is very important... in my opinion.

We're in the digital age guys) or...you can just find a Real, Straightforward Investor to Mentor you. and if he's ligit and not a greedy crook.

Most of the small multi-unit properties in these markets can achieve low double digit returns IF you're willing to buy a property that needs to be renovated and re-rented.