Mike,One of my favorites is look for vacant houses and track down the owner and try to work out a deal.

My favorite thing to do is finding relatives and sending them a letter if I can't get in touch with the actual owner of the property.

Most pro contractors have favorite supply houses & can get great deals as well, but they like to keep that savings to enhance their end of the deal.

I am in the process of making an introductory training for military to (A) understand their VA eligibility and (B) how to optimize VA eligibility to purchase a SFR and, my favorite, multifamily properties.I am looking to create a professional network dedicated to helping and training our military to fully optimize their VA entitlement as well as get some "military serving military" help.thoughts?

Buy a prime condo in NYC, about 10mil, and houses in each of my favorite locations(probably 2mil total).

I would primarily like to avoid taking all of the capital gain in year 4 as ordinary income and lose close to 50% to our favorite uncle.Thanks for your consideration in advance BP!

One of my favorite parts of these blogs are the conversations that take place in the comments below.

You are starting pretty much the same way I did, with owner occupied multifamily :) It's still my favorite type of investing!

I enjoy reading your posts also.Some of my favorites are Steve Babiak.

You can pay them cash IF they're willing to sell for 25% of market value (this is my favorite approach).