If you can tell me the numbers you are trying to hit I can suggest different avenues of real estate where it might be possible to achieve it.

Software, employees, ect...I have money sitting on the sidelines that I am ready to invest to make my business the most efficient and streamlined as possible.

By creating processes to make your business more efficient, you should be able to make more money while at the same time working fewer hours (or if you want to work more hours, you'll make a LOT more money).When I first started in this business, I was spending 100 hours at the job site for each project.

If you get the right person (fairly hit or miss) they are knowledgeable, the issue is you won't know if you have the right answer when you speak to them.Another approach would be to contract in one name and assign the contract to the ETC name.

joel- It seems as though most apt's in the area include heat and hot water... my real expense is water and sewer (I'm getting hit for over 25k a year).

Leverage technology to stay organized and work efficiently.

This also opens up the old question of whether it is worth pulling $$ out of a 401k and taking the penalty hit, or letting it sit there.

Although I accumulated most of my wealth in a different way in real estate than Nickerson suggests, I still believe that it lays out as clearly as I have ever seen how one can accumulate wealth in real estate investing without doing anything extraordinary - just hitting lots of singles over time.

Additionally, I recently saw a jumbo loan matrix with price hits for stated income.

When you bid one loan, it is really a hit or miss.