When I started out, I would max out a credit card, then transfer that to another card with a 0% promo fee, and eat the finance charge, then pay that off before the offer ended.

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Splitting profits is certainly going to eat into your earnings and I'm sure the newer investors will need a lot more of your time than an experienced investor but it'd be a way to grow without having to come up with capital. 

They don’t want to eat teh repair when I say I didn’t approve it.

I guess this is like a which comes first, the chicken or the egg. 

Tougher to flip but not impossible, the renovation costs on some of the older structures eat into profit. 

There are ways to invest in other types of securities other than stocks in a Roth, such as using a self directed IRA, but these strategies are more complicated and probably not advised unless you know what you are doing and have a nest egg saved up. 

Our concern is that if something bad were to happen to one property and we have multiple properties under that same LLC that we run the risk of one bad egg ruining a whole batch of properties.

You could try a private money lender but they’d still probably require a down payment and the interest would be much higher, definitely would eat into your bottom line. 

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