If you get in you need to do volume to support the staff that needs to be hired to manage it all.

The communication has been downhill and Clayton is not even responding to emails or phone calls about their failed projects which is consistent with the staff after you start to ask questions about your property and real progress with pictures and proof.If you would like to file a class action suit we can talk to our legal reps about that.

And flipping is not investing, it's a project and if you do it well and you can scale it eventually it will be a business with staff on payrole and hopefully a 10% profit at the end of the year before taxes.The only real play in REI is buy and hold - for a long time.

That 84,000 is before expenses and staff etc.

I work in Indianapolis and see people from all over the US and world-wide invest here.

I'm sure, if I had a handyman on staff, I could pay him 45k and scale it for more properties.

Then my staff emails them (via auto but it's personalized so they don't know) 3 times.

This allows us to have a full time staff managing our properties and fully invested in increasing the NOI.

Many of us accountants have clients worldwide.

My most recent acquisition was a 276 unit class C deal in a B+ neighborhood that needed substantial interior and exterior renovations of over $2.5 million, AND a total change of management and staff.