If you want to purchase income-producing real estate, I would consider doing it in your 401(k) or your IRA.

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@Mark ElderThe concept you outline is going to produce a self-dealing prohibited transaction. 

The way I see this is that my net return from the contract for deed scenario of $11,865 does not produce a good return on equity of $11,865/$108,867 which is 3.6% annually.

Inventory in my area is very low, so i'm struggling to find properties that produce reasonable monthly cash flow and CoC (based on what i believe to be good numbers).

Sharp contractions in personal consumption, exports, inventories, investment, and spending by state and local governments, converged to bring down GDP, which is the combined tally of all goods and services produced by our economy during the quarter.

Usually you are required to produce current leases to justify your statements and some want to see P&LI always have DTI issues due to real estate being a large part of my income.

What are your intentions are you a wholesaler who wants to produce leads for yourself to put into contract or are you wanting to be a marketing company and sell those leads?

Zillow still produces the best leads.

So that one property will produce close to 5k a month by the time we’re done with it and I do mean above P&R after losses.