A short list:* Debt/leverage* Cost/expense* Lineal Path/Compounding* Cash/Cash-like-substance* Useful equity/useless equity* Strategies:  Entrance/Exit* Seed Money/ProfitPart 3 is developing systems to apply creative funding to...the key is the word "system", that follows the Golden Rules without wavering.

We're talking guys with ankle bracelets and monitors courtesy of the county lockup, complete incompetents, habitual substance abusers.It's sweet that you guys think that I could swing this repair in late October with three good handymen in my Rolodex.

Investing in a syndication is closer in substance and spirit to investing in a small public REIT than investing directly in SFR's. 

^That's a pretty condescending reply that provides no substance except for putting her down to make yourself feel superior.

Is there anyone else here that can provide more substance on them?  

I can only speak about where I live, but smoking inside a unit in an apartment building is illegal--no matter the substance.

The statue of limitations exposure to an unhealthy substance is 3 years so if they have a problem in 45 years (yes, it takes long term exposure and then decades for it to become a problem) the statute of limitations is long past. ;-) Seriously, long term exposure (decades) is the concern here, not intermittent exposure over a lifetime.2nd there is lead in paint prior to 1978.

You have an impressive gift for speaking volumes without actually saying anything of substance.""

Most states that are currently cracking down on wholesaling look to the substance of the transaction as a whole.

The second you use the phrase "above-average lifestyle" you're trawling for takers with a below-average IQ.Why do we never define REI success in any sort of terms that are meaningful to people of any substance and intelligence?