I'm looking to do flips to raise a safety cushion for when I start buying rentals.Chris, I agree, there are many of these people around. 

What does your property's sale price work out to if you multiply that PPSQ by the # of sq ft of your property, and discount it by a healthy margin of safety?

No pets usually cuts your tenant pool by 50%.

Do you want to become skilled at scouting new restaurant locations and growing your portfolio of restaurants, or do you want to become skilled at making Cold Cut Combos and interacting with hungry customers?

Let him know that there are ways to cut the retirement age just by investing in a few properties.I have a podcast that focuses on first-time passive investors.

Does anyone have any recent experience who can speak to the process of cutting through the red tape?

Have seen a lot of investors lose properties to foreclosure because they cut their cashflow down too much.Where are you looking to buy more rentals?

Usually, most price cuts happen around 45-60 days. 

Not sure if you can see but they did not put the trim on the edge of the parquet.

(IE: I'm concerned that refinancing at $290K puts us at the top of the market and at risk for being underwater when it goes back down)And do you have any opinions on the relative merits/safety of leveraging your primary residence to start investing?