I've heard life hacking, credit card hacking, airline mile hacking, etc.

I have used a CPA in the past named Don Mowery at Trout, Ebersole, and Groff in Lancaster, and he gave some good tax advice for our future investments, but if you just need a return filed it will be a waste of $1000 in my opinion.

In the past I would offer higher interest rates and sellers would get scared thinking it was to good to be true.

If I don’t get a lot of action on Zillow then I’ll paste it to a Facebook page.

Rents have lagged significantly behind property values in Austin over the past several years. 

I've done JV deals with clients in the past, but usually they are not local, so my expertise and locality is something that they don't have where they are.

Any suggestions as to how any of you have approached this in the past.

Basically talent in my area wants 150-250K per year and I simply am not willing to make that type of pay cut unless they remove me from the business and I watch it grow from a warm awesome location.I have used Fivver in the past, everything from novelty birthday videos to advanced business marketing materials.  

Give them 10 mins or so to comply, then call the tow truck. 

My partners and I started in smaller cities and towns (Waterloo, Edmonton, Hamilton), but we've been consolidating our efforts in Toronto over the past 5-7 years.There is a trade-off between cash flow returns and equity growth and when I started investing in the early 2000's, I was solely focused on cash flow and cap rates.