I think the more more dramatic opportunity will be the millions of baby boomers ready to move into a multifamily facility that is catered into their life-style, thus creating rental demand and lowering SFH suburban housing demand. 

So I want to copy that style and find a house I can furnish and rent out the rooms.

It's good to be specific and goal orientated.

I like your writing style, very simple and clear.I've hoarded on cash this time (keeping my powder dry as you said), and rather buy when RE is lower that current highs, than pull the trigger due to impatience.

@Aaron Mack I really like Clairemont and University City because of their distance to the colleges and shopping while still tend to attracting a more family-oriented crowd (no frat parties, more stable).

A word to the wise though: I like your style, but your posts in the Forum are suspiciously edging towards direct advertising (by encouraging us to look up your SPONSORED profile) ie. only appropriate for the Marketplace Section.

If you do not want to work your way up in the business and want to pay for instant success, then you may want to look for more of one on one type of paid mentors... these free for all guru events are full of information but very hard to cram what would take you years to learn into a 3 day weekend.BP has a bunch of regular investors that share their investing theories and stories and some of this may help you and its free.. really depends on your learning style...

Larry,I would think it would be based on a few different factors, mostly what your RE investment objectives and style are.

My experience is not enough charge them.I can instantly tell the difference between two vendors between one will do everything for free and one values their time.The one that does everything for free will be lower priced, lower quality, hard to communicate with, frustrating to work with, price oriented instead of quality oriented, typically late all the time, cutting corners, easy to have misunderstandings with, be unsophisticated in his business practices, typically will always lead to deep, ugly problems of some sort due to personality issues, will be reactive during the project, voice mail that is full or phone dead, will require a tremendous amount of babysitting and aggravation from start to finish.The one that values their time will be higher priced, easy to communicate with, quality oriented, on time, will require no baby sitting, will be proactive during the project, typically will be a very easy and painless working relationship.There is more money to be made in the long run when you focus your time on what's important to move your business ahead, freeing up your time and aggrivation allows you to increase your income faster than babysitting everything and pulling your hair out and everything taking 3 times as long.

Podio is cheap and has a marketplace that has a number of real estate oriented packages in it, though the quality is iffy.