We just closed on our latest flip and the first in our new market.  I figured I would post the story to help out some of those trying to get started.  These are the types of posts that pushed me to get started so hope...

Well if you have zero into the property, even a $1 return produces an infinite return.

It can be useful as a source of funds that can be tapped if things get rough, so I am not suggesting everyone should be leveraged to the hilt, but that is also what a healthy cash reserve is for.  

and would this hands off income producing opportunity pay more than a SFR?  

My ultimate plan is to have several income producing properties.

His experience in the Florida real estate market is year in and year out around around the top-producing residential real estate agents.

Websites take a while to build good enough traffic that produce results.  

Far better to get a RE license and get on a top producer team .. you create a career you actually make money and you do it all legally.. or try to anyway. 

The difference is that the documentation requirements needed, if challenged to prove qualified use, is trickier to produce  and more open to disallowance when you're documenting a room in a house rather than one side of a duplex.  

(At some point in your future you may use them for leverage on income producing deals).