Do you still have cash, lines of credit or other funds that you can use to get your next deal in? 

Is it a greedy seller who wants top dollar for a pile of poo, or someone who is actually going to work with the guys/gals who are going to execute the project and have their butts/reputations/credit scores on the line?  

And it also applies to any type of real estate you purchase with the intent of holding for productive investment use.  

Hi Tonisha,It might help to put your area in the subject line, so people know what you are asking.

All applicants lie but you must draw the line at some point and this one clearly has gone beyond that point in my book.

If you have different contractors doing different things then line up projects where your teams go in order through multiple projects.

You need to see saturation levels for the area for the product type retail, medical,etc. you are thinking of.

That’s kinda along the lines of what I was thinking, as far as approaching them.

Now that I've graduated with a good job lined up I'm finally ready to take the first steps in beginning a new journey in buy and hold real estate.I'm currently living in the Tualatin/Tigard area and working as a mechanical engineer for a large semiconductor firm.

Afterward (or even before if things line up and depending on how quickly he's paid the loans down) he can pull out equity to buy new properties, use money saved from his regular job to buy more, or use a 1031 to leapfrog into something even better.