Having a mindset of this 80% vs 20% (rich) realtors is not a good approach - most of the top producers have worked hard, established themselves in the community & followed up with good systems to maintain relationships with clientele.

The most practical ways to increase your return on equity are:- Increase rents or reduce operating expenses to produce more cash flow- Refinance your property, pulling equity out- Sell homes or properties that are producing, or which you expect to produce low ROE, and purchase new ones with higher expected returnsHope this helps! 

Are commercial lenders able and/or generally willing to use an income based appraisal on 2-4 units, if income based produces a much higher value than market based?

What I do know is I need to figure out how much I I'll get for my initial HEL and the highest mortgage I can qualify for for safely; then I can find a property that fits my price range, then I need to analyze the property to make sure it's going to produce positive cash flow, and finally I think I'm supposed to go to http://www.city-data.com and https://www.bls.gov/ to check out things like employment, construction, and mortgage trends in that area to really see if it would be a good investment for now and well int the future.

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Hello,How do you go about producing your podcast once the video and audio are captured?

Many don't want to work with newer investors because they spend a lot of time with non income producing activity and the investor doesn't do any business.

I assure you they are out there.The requests you made are quite reasonable and if they cannot produce them, walk away. 

This property is a gold mine and will produce enough cash flow to pay back all investments fast!

In fact, laundromats produce incredible cash flow that's tough to beat.