For the past year I've been trying to conjure up businesses, each time my idea is too big to create (making social media apps for example.)

Pound social media and let everyone know what you're doing.

Warm calling is you have out a piece of social media or a letter etc. and the prospect IS CALLING YOU based on reading your sharing of knowledge or offer.Warm calling can also be we call around to developers on the commercial side to get first looks at properties for clients.

Unlike passive rental income, the income from an active trade or business is subject to self employment tax (a nasty 15% tax commonly referred to a "social security and medicare" by working folks).

Once you get past 4 or more properties, you'll no longer be considered an investor and will also have to pay self employment tax (increased social security and medicare) on top of the gains being taxed as income.

Some marketing is free (money) if you have the time.... going door to door, driving for dollars, cold-calling, handwritten/hand-delivered yellow letters, attending REIA meetings, posting content on social media, etc...

Most Real Estate in the East Bay is pre-1978.Awesome Chris,What about a CRM or social media manager like Buffer and Hootsuite?

You're welcome - I've never worked with Ines, but know her from other Realtor social channels.

JV projects: he is open to them but there is a lot of shady people out there and he wants to know how to efficiently do his due diligence and not give his money to the first person that comes along (here or outside CA). completing the picture: - he cannot invest 100% of it: bc he works on project commission base jobs (consultant for social media marketing)- People do owe him money: and he will get about 20k more from it in March and April: - In addition he will save about $30k more by the summer (June) from wages after expenses. - Only debt: car payment (about 15k left on loan) and credit card debt ($6k) : other than that no debt. - 1099 : He is now earning at least $100k per year and fico over 750***********I know the advise I will give him, but I thought it would be fun to hear what you have to say about it!

Besides the occasional stencil art on the pavement, another favorite was during the Google bus/tech shuttle protests a few years ago (they were protesting how tech shuttles quickly gentrified neighborhoods and put upward pressure on rents)- so at a protest in the Mission district they unfurled a huge piñata in the shape of a Google bus and started beating on it.