Your finished product remind me of Phoenix Redevelopment style(Eastside craftsman style homes- pottery barn style finishes) if they are still around.

Very pleased with the product, looks like a traditional stained cabinet.  

Everything you buy - EVERYTHING - especially food, has some wholesaling involved at some point be it in the raw materials used to manufacture it, the bulk discount obtained by shipping mass quantities, or the actual product you purchase at point of sale.SO, why should real estate be any different?

The number one way is to buy a saleable and in demand product.

NY, in my opinion, has become an increasingly common and to a degree NY itself has become homogenous with the various chain offerings of "local" product (e.g., replacing the deli with xyz chain).

Neither are wrong, but are very different.Many of our differences stem from what I see as your approach to note investing being slanted toward your type of operations and it seeming to be the "right way" as you have implied and in fact stated in the past as to you being the more "sophisticated investor(s)" as opposed to "street level" or "layman" investors with tones of being inferior in concept.Many of the approaches by institutional investors, who appease a pool of investors are not even applicable to the majority of individual note investors we have here, for example, the manager's rate of return is hardly applicable when that investor doesn't have overhead expenses, employees and investors, it's over kill and not appropriate.

Not every deal is going to be a home run like that, but most can be had for at least a 10 cap around our area relatively easily as long as you buy right, have a good product, and have amentities people want they run pretty well.

I have been advised by the Smart Charts trainer that all of the informaton in a local MLS is included in the Smart Charts product.

So to contribute year after year to a Roth is counter productive.2.

I think pulling everything together into one website would be useful in my mind... but I don't know how feasible this might be...One site which consolidates MLS listings (redfin.com, zillow.com), demographic data like distribution of family size, rental unit composition (city-data.com) rental comps for closed leases (rent-ometer.com, zillow.com), on-market rentals nearby (CL), walkscore/bikescore/transitscore (walkscore.com), etc...Of course, right now, these all have their proprietary models.. maybe you can just throw them a few pennies to aggregate it, or justify that the aggregated information is your own product..