Going for upscale sales, luxuryproperties(dot)com, looking to sell dog poop, K9Krapp(dot)com, get the picture?

You seem like the ideal candidate to do bird-dogging for other investors.

However, I have read a bit of info on here about bird-dogging, and this seems interesting to me, especially as a virtual bird-dog while wholesaling locally.

Now your building up your bird dogs and targeting more people than JUST sellers.

I've been taking my girlfriend and her interest in real estate has grown tremendously.At this point, I have a general idea of some of the different facets of real estate investment (bird dogging, wholesaling, rehab/flip, buy & hold) but still have much more to learn.What's the best path to take to learn the ropes as well as get some cash flow to re-invest into other projects?

Replace the original screen with the heavy duty screen that can hold up to dogs scratching on them.

Maybe start with your dogs or more problematic properties.

Dog eat dog, "Ruff!".

Dawn I would say the rate is high because of this:"Bank will do the deal at 15% down and 10 year fixed 6.5%"Only 15% is being put down instead of 25 to 35% the typical bank is asking for.So they price potential of default and all the other factors with appraisals and equity spreads into the rate.For much larger down the investor on the loan will take a much lower rate if it is a premium property.Less risk-less return is almost tied to anything.You need to go back a few years at least.I like to go five to ten and see how much insurance and property taxes have risen for that property on an annual basis.If they have not risen and stayed flat or went down I find out why.Could be a mistake on the city or counties part and it's fixing to go up or could be a temporary assessment relief program etc.The point is if these sharply rise in the near future it can throw off your projected numbers.I would try to fight the property tax if comps support it and get the taxes lowered to increase your bottom line.Regardless of age if you mishandle a a property (even a new one) and get crap tenants in there your maintenance costs will be huge.I have seen the wrong tenants DESTROY and brand new looking apartment in a matter of months.They also created a bug problem for the other good paying tenants that kept their place clean.With my buildings I have it in the lease that we do unit inspections every few weeks and if they do not keep the place clean then we evict immediately.When tenants apply we find when we say this upfront it gets rid of the deadbeats wanting to live like slobs,have unauthorized pets,and have big parties that trash the place.When factoring repairs is this property local to where you live??

Angel,The quickest ways with the least amount of up front cash and COMPARATIVELY "no risk" would be bird dogging for wholesalers or wholesaling.