Long story short, I had a repair guy come out to repair a washing machine.

Drawback is you'll be splitting an assignment fee with them.In order to provide the most fair price and most information on your deals you will need to be extremely efficient (because you are adding even more value which is harder to find). 1) You will need to lead gen like a machine. 2) When leads come in, you will need to be able to disqualify the bad ones extremely fast.

@Othmane Rifki first off, congrats on getting into the RE game! 

In the syndication space, our investors put up most of the equity but most passive investors will (and should) expect sponsors to have skin in the game.

Ive been listening to the podcast for years now and Im just happy to finally have some skin in the game.

This is a numbers game and the most important step, the more houses/duplexes/etc you analyze, the more you will learn and start to see trends and what strategies may work in your area.

We own 762 rental properties and this has been a game changer for us.

To widen the driveway, I'd like to trim half of a 10 foot tall and maybe 7-8 ft wide privacy hedge (my adjoining neighbor is ok with that).One issue I'm running into - talking with others it's possible that the machines used to help trim (and tear out?)

Many will talk a big game and you will want to do a thorough check on them to ensure what they say is what they do.

If you're trying to avoid the emotional component if REI and not necessarily looking to invest where you've got family, it's most often a numbers game and researching markets.