Routine maintenance, landscaping, snow removal, rent collection, bookkeeping, pest control.

There are plenty of posts here, and calls into financial radio shows where someone is crying that, "the judge that granted my divorce said my ex had to pay".

This is quite a bit of work but when the property is appraised I am able to finance 100% of the cost of construction and have a new property.One advantage of this is that as I am in control of the building process, thus I am in control of the quality of construction and the materials that are used.

Leverage is the ability to use a small investment to control a large investment.

But how can they make a deal for loans that they have no control over?

Remember you don't have to own a property to control it.Good LuckPaul

If I had to get a job again, some possibilities would be: teach English in Japan or some other foreign country that allows me to experience travel and different cultures, become a firefighter, go back to school for a master's in another subject in a science discipline so it's free, I'm great in any sort of sales role and I wouldn't even have a problem doing something like selling cars, hell even bartending would be more enjoyable than this.Also regarding the Google algorithms etc, I don't do any SEO for exactly that reason...my traffic is all paid traffic, so I have far more control, and I advertise on affiliate-friendly sources with essentially no compliance guidelines or restrictions of any kind...I focused on these because I thought they would be more long term than continually getting banned from and then defrauding Google, Facebook, etc. like most big affiliates do.

One thing you have openly stated is that you want to (understandably) control as much about any RE deal as you possibly can.

(Not looking for multi-unit due to rent control).Does anyone have a good grasp on which areas are gentrifying, and typical CAP rates there.

Seller now being controlled by bank and unable to sell.A second scenario was listed June 2013 at $160,000.