Can you significantly add income that the property generates, lower expenses that the property currently has, and can you do all those things while making an 'investment'.

Preferably as many units as possible but with hidden value in making improvements (the unfinished attic in our current house was a goldmine) a.My feeling is auctions are good place to go for this but I don’t know anything about auctions. 3.Rent a property to live in for the first year I can’t subject my fiancé to living in a gut rehab again 4.Use the cash generated from the property and work during that first year to put together a down payment for a house for us. 5.Re finance the rental property and buy more property.These are my other day one questions: 1.I’m an architect, does anyone have any advice for actively leveraging my skills to help me do this real estate investing thing full time/ what career change could help me ease into this while still having a salary?

A lot of people start out doing this to establish credit, generate income, and learn the property management/investment process.Most importantly, I recommend you read every book possible on real estate investing.

While it met be $300/$400 hour for the time you “think” they spent, what about the 75% of their time with clients who never generate a commission, let alone marketing expense, fees, time, etc.?

Well I am officially connecting with brokers and trying to build my lead funnel.

I'm not sure whether that's something I should be looking for (to get both done with the same company), or whether that can end up generating conflicts of interest.

But before that program was established, one of the neighborhood associations took the bull by the horns and offered a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a graffiti artist.

They in turn lead me to a third property.  

The next thing I do is make a note of any long lead time items that I may need to get ordered in a timely fashion such as granite and a custom sized door.

Direct mail is still my lead generator and I'm getting about 0.7% callback rate.