great to see you have an investor(envestor) mindset and take initiative to leap frog your new frontier into the creative world of real estate, although i no longer hold a current realtor's license i think that is wonderful that you can use that platform to spike your niche, i work with some local realtors here i'm currently working acquiring a  7 - 8 4-plex deal, and i think it is money wisely spent to locate wonderful realtors they will make you team that much more valuable, keep posting my friend but most of all keep sharing happy trails on your new journey

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Because Charlotte is such a hot market, there are fewer motivated sellers...most folks have looked at Zillow and are dead set on retail...but it's a numbers game - gotta kiss a lot of frogs!  

Same with a yurt, tiny house or a hollowed out fiberglass potato.What you get with building is you build it to your spec.

Just kissing a lot of frogs.

I think this is how a lot of commercial investors approach the problem, and it's ultimately the company I would like to keep.As for finding them: You still have to get out there, shake hands, and kiss a few frogs.

Sometimes we have to kiss a lot of frogs to find our Princess/Prince;-)

You really do have kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince in this city, and if you do you can make it work.

NPN maybe, if you can find ones, but again with $1m you aren't going to kiss enough frogs to get the princes you need. 

Kiss on enough frogs and one is bound to be a prince......This week my partner and I are working on a home with a ballance of 397,000 on a first and second both not performing with a value of 620,000.