I don't want to be one of those investors who "runs out of money".Looking for opinions of people similar to both Turner and Greene who started out blue collar and built wealth from scratch.  

I would NOT try to time the market to sell it at peak unless you had another compelling reason like mentioned above for wanting/needing to sell anyway ... remember, even if you hit the peak for this RE cycle (which is hard enough to do), it does not mean you will be selling out at the global all time peak ... it reminds me of something my parent's did in the 1980's, they timed the market perfectly and sold at the peak for that RE cycle ... it was a triplex a few blocks from the ocean they sold for $150k, value stayed flat for years after they sold but today is probably worth >$2M.

There was definitely a big blue dragon in one of the bedrooms, I'm not sure if it was a sea dragon or if they were blue clouds.  

We didn't walk away empty handed, they even left us with a free on-line resource page filled with the conference slides, web links, sample marketing pieces, contracts, blue prints for marketing and even outlined details of several of the strategies taught.

So, the showing up part is not unique, depends on the parties involved.The telephone is a great tool, so are fax machines and computers.My challenge wasn't to "A" transaction being possible as in things falling in place, as you mentioned, you located buyers, that doesn't explain the specifics of how you located a buyer, how you coordinated with the buyer, if the buyer ever saw the property, how inspections were done, coordination with the seller, if you had to keep those parties apart or you introduced them.And, doing this, not as a once in a blue moon but as an ordinary course of doing business, that's what I doubt.I'd suggest too that this deal or deals came about more from circumstances than by design.

Look what the first page of Google looks like for someone with godly SEO skills...Everywhere there is a blue arrow.. is us!

Keep in mind: a million dollars in equity in prime, blue chip real estate (SF Bay, Costal CA, Manhattan, Hawaii, etc.) is a different animal than a million in boom/bust places like AZ, FL, NV, etc.

Some people just come out of the blue. 

I have used Blue Leaf lending for a couple residential and one commercial (for my 6 unit) and they were great to work with.

West Hartford is a great town and with a location close to Blue Back Square you'll never have a shortage of folks looking to be able to walk to downtown from home!