However, after spending a lot of time reading everything I could in here, I've decided to focus on MFH and try to spatter in a few SFH, if the market allows, after a couple years of positive cash flow.My goal is to pick up a duplex to begin.

Then they spend lots of time consulting with all these prospects, to find out their investing goals, experience level, investment time horizon, income requirements, risk tolerance, etc.

Why are you so opposed to spending some money to refurbish the floors?

You buy, then you spend 20k on repairs, then you can not perform - you will loose everything.Thus, do you have the skills to pull this off?

Since I am so nice I would extend but let them know that the emd is forfeited either way.

Get the basics here for free and then you can better judge whether and with who to spend you money on coaching.

Also, once you spend some time on the site, you will see which members are experts in certain areas.Again, welcome and good luck!

I’m not suggesting you only approach people you know (at first, we don’t personally know those we loan to), but if sending letters and postcards didn’t work, why would anyone spend time viewing a video or downloading a PDF file, Brian?

Spend your money on quality leads and figure out how to sort out the motivated sellers from the non motivated.

If you were able to go from 80k in the hole to spending 1M a year on marketing alone (holy crap!)