In general home prices have been increasing over the past 4 years and I am not sure if it is sustainable, but if it does continue you could have a bit of equity.

Timeframe, resonably, at least some 12 months.

As a new agent, my goal is a sustainable and healthy long-term strategy but I'm also trying to secure as many listings as possible.

I've come to BP in hopes of expanding my knowledge in the house flipping sector,  network, find a mentor in that space, and eventually build a self sustaining business.

One thing I do with all my tenants, which are all potential tenant-buyers is put in a clause that they must sustain a credit repair program throughout the lease.

While there may be no {short-term} motivation to the landlord to strive for more efficiency, our experience is showing mid to long term gains in lower turnover, higher demand (mostly via word of mouth) and, more recently, the ability to command better rents.... however, we'll save that debate for one of the sustainability and efficiency threads :-)

When you get into commercial unless you are doing large balance properties a lot of banks push 20 year amortization with 3 to 5 year balloons and full recourse with 30% down.Of course there are exceptions but these types of loans do not resonate with me.

I work for Saint Joe's, managing university housing (my background is architecture and sustainability) and have been learning the market and building a solid network.

The REPEAT/S part of your zero to two hundred rentals program requires that you are ONLY using other peoples money - otherwise it's not sustainable! 

End of the day you need to figure out whether they are truly motivated to sell, and help them solve their problems. 4) Start a sustained direct mail campaign.