Just a few random thoughts: -It's been a little tough for us here in Jax to find favorable refi options, but if you have strong income outside RE (which we don't really) then it might be much easier for you.

Most people do not choose to live this way, it's a series of circumstances that has created it, whether by poor choices, life in general, random acts of god, or a combination of all of these. 

and passed them out to random houses on my route, doubled my income in the first year-various high school jobs, racing cars, chasing girls -Air Force basic training - where the lesson behind folding and refolding socks and making your bed 100 times in a morning is NOT about how to do laundry, it's about attention to details - never forgotten-first assignment in Germany where a higher ranking NCO taught me by being genuine that you should never be too good to do the job that you ask people under you to do-started my first business at 23, grew it from $ 60,000/sales year 1 to almost $ 1,000,000 in year 5.  

I'm also introverted so randomly chatting it up with strangers about a topic I don't feel I have much knowledge on sounds like a nightmare lol. 

I'd prefer to take upwards of 30% of it and invest in 1 or 2 rental properties.Should I just randomly call a realtor and provide them this info and get to work?

Just for curiosity, I picked 3 of them in miami dade at random and crossed referenced them on the clerk of courts site. 1 was still in the owners name, so it might of just transferred, 1 had foreclosed Jan 2011 and no writ of possession was ever filed. 1 was foreclosed 8/2011 and had a writ that had been issued and rejected with the comment "3rd party entitled to stay".

I thought the business tightened up and appraisers were selected at random now.

I just got a random letter in the mail.  

We are fortunate not to have a lot of board ups on one street and fortunately any crime that occurs, is not random.

(We do moderate the forums and remove these posts when we see them.)You cannot just randomly send PMs to people, just in case they might be looking for a service you provide.