These qualifications are what led me to thinking about notes/HML as opposed to hands-on flipping or even landlording, which take up more time, stress, and hands-on activity.I am also looking for an approach that can be successfully executed with less than $500K starting capital.

I had a plan and I executed it.

They execute the sale between them and the seller.

Okay to break it down-I am getting a house under contract, waiting for them to execute and it will be done.It is listed with a realtor-BUT the owner figured it out with the realator and he will pay him out of pocket. 

The financial  side is the derivative of the value of the asset, or the economic benefit, the real side is simply a business decision as to execute the option to purchase or not, for example, the value goes down below the strike or purchase price, the real side is most likely to decline to purchase.

Bob I had an executive job that was a 90 hour a week emergency room.

Once I find my niche, I hope to eventually execute my first transaction and successfully build a portfolio.  

Chief executive Denny Coleman was outlining how tens of thousands of negative news stories about Ferguson were affecting the entire region.

It makes you vulnerable.  

Execution is the secret sauce.