Note investing definitely takes a little bit more savvy than traditional investing, but if you are willing to put in the time and educate yourself on it, the returns can be great.

Another tip I learned myself recently is that you need to put @ in front of a name in order to let the person get notification that somebody mention them in a post.  

In the future on a property that seems to work out for you,  and you put a contract on, put in a 10 day inspection addendum and bring back a contractor and/or pay for a home inspector to get a carefully trained set of eyes in there to make sure you are not buying someone else's headache.

Ironically, I get a call to put in a bid to do a full house renovation at this house.  

The more work you put in, the more you get out of it.

This is all I am doing now, I do not deal with retail buyers and sellers at the moment, I tried to, but found it to be a distraction. so I would also need to figure out a way to cover my monthly expenses both business and personal asap.  

,You are correct through the entire first part.Yes you can separate some of the things that you put in separately.

They put in time with their corporate jobs in the beginning.

I would like to explore if I can partner with a friend who has good credit rating to get a conventional bank loan.I can structure it for a 50-50 if she would put in some capital as well while I do all the management.However, if she is not keen on investing in real estate but is willing to let me do loans using her credit, how can I structure this?

I put in probably 60 hours per week, but I do take off whenever my kids have stuff going on.