If you're looking to possibly get hard numbers, I would recommend contacting @Albert Bui, he is a mortgage planner who I believe operates out of the South Puget Sound region and is used to working with investors.I would also look to get in contact with a good real estate agent, one who can help you start to figure out what you should pay for a given space.Cheers, and keep asking questions of the community!

You'd want to make sure that the individual soliciting you for investments operates with Integrity, is Trustworthy, and has a nice list of completed projects.If you have no completed projects under your belt, bring in someone who does 

So obviously if the area has hit that limit then bar owners or liquor store operators probably wouldn't be your target market.  

My profile pic is from a photo taken in early 2014 on Forward Operating Base Gamberi in Afghanistan when I was embedded with 101st.Anyway, I'm not exactly ready for any properties at this point .

So my exit strategy is more in tune with a turn key operation.

I guess to avert analysis paralysis, I'm looking to dive deeper into the flip side of things and get a deep understanding into the day to day operations on the business end.

This practice is less than attractive, IMHO to any newbie investor; especially when the discussion was to have, at a minimum, 3 separate series, 1 to buy and sell (flips), one to hold (rentals), and one to handle operations(PM or day to day OPS).  

Effective Date: 10-06-1980 5313.09 Instrument of cancellation of land contract.A judgment for the vendor shall operate to cancel the land installment contract as of a date to be specified by the court.

Though you didn't record the note to secure the property with a mortgage, you can still make it difficult for him to operate and potentially raise more money when new investors check him out and see his history.Don't take it lying down (so to speak). hopefully more people will chime in.

I lived and operated my REI business in portland for a number of years and am now based in Charlotte, NC.