When you are getting  down money from other people's money, with floating debt, it's a speculation.

The key is to create more well-paying jobs in Worcester, close to where people live.

She connected me with so many people (home inspector, insurance agent, lender etc), but allowed me to handle communication with them directly so that I was aways in the loop with what was going on.

(Most of the people fell upon hard times and are working and need to find an apartment.

I am just curious to reach out to people on BP and seeing who is actively buying and selling notesHave not seen a lot of activity on the page so just curious.

I read about people who purchase a property, obtained some equity, and used the HELOC on that property to buy their next.

There are some people "real estate consultants" who will give you detailed reports: if they think this is better for a flip, rental, what rents you could get, recommended repairs (not as detailed as an inspection report). 

Becoming a Key Principal (KP) in other people’s commercial real estate deals is a great way to shelter your income, participate in several deal at the same time, minimize / spread out risk, capture equity w/ a preferred double-digit return at a discount cash-out-of-pocket investment. 

Right now my focus is simply to learn all I can and connect with people who are immersed in this world.

Greenville has a little better population growth and is about 90K people, roughly the size of Rocky Mount and Wilson combined.