You can find talented people for not much money if the job allows them to work from home, or if you can’t yet pay your people a larger salary you can tie them to the net profit which is a great incentive for them to close deals. 30-40 Deals a YearHire: If you have scaled your business to the point where you are doing 30-40 deals a year, hiring a bookkeeper will save you a huge headache come tax time.

I think this has helped us learn way quicker about what is good construction and what isn’t so that when we have a contractor doing the work we know if they aren’t doing it correctly or cutting corners.

He thought they might cut his salary or make him come back to the office if they learned he had moved to Arizona.

We want to buy our first multi family home to live in and rent the second one as a form of cutting living expenses to save money for future deals.

This is the space where an investor can continue to grow their portfolio even in this market.Now, if you don't want to do rehab and I don't blame you because I've found out the hard way in past ventures that I really really suck at carpentry and most things that aren't basic mechanicals like HVAC (I was an aircraft mechanic in a past life so I "get" things you can assemble with bolts better than how to cut wood in a perfectly straight line even with a jig), there are options to have general contractors and specialist subcontractors do the rehab for you. 

I would think your costs would be cut some from that but your hourly rates might be higher so might be about the same assuming nothing goes wrong.

Maybe Bowling Green has a medical community tied to the University which would provide short term guests doing internships or visiting professors. 

I'm a buyer if you get it tied up.

Read some Dave Ramsey on how to cut expenses and save.

We want the lawn cut every the other week in the summer, remove leaves in the Fall season and trim bushes once or twice a year.