Well I just want to be a top producer so seems to me I will have to recruit some bird dogs immediately.

Mark Ferguson - Incredible!

It simply wouldn't give you the best returns on your investment capital, nor would it produce the highest cash-flows.I would do some research into other markets and see what you like.

I say this not knowing the situation too, he might be a great producer and building guy and be a dunce with numbers, he needs to learn, but maybe you could also reach a compromise where he eats some of it.

I think it would be incredibly difficult to cash-out refi 1/2 of an investment property, even if you did own half and it was a refinance, at least from a bank or conventional lender.

But even with access as a real estate broker, getting good deals in Atlanta is TOUGH (perhaps more so for us since we started earlier and produce upwards of 30% on some of our properties so it's tough to "settle" for "just" 10-12).

So I'm right at $500 a month before vacancy/repairs.If I could put 20 of those together, I'd be incredibly happy.

All is well now, both sides are rented and income producing and I now manage the property myself since I was doing most of the “management” anyway.

About five weeks after the job, I started to see some incredible cracking of the wood floor!

At minimum You will need to produce the following: utility bill in your name, lenders like cable or house phone not a cell phone, bank accounts to be mailed to subject propert address, drivers license should have subject propert address.