All the best in your journey, and I hope that you continue to learn and grow through BP.

US population is still growing due to immigration and even in other countries where population is stagnating or declining (Europe, Japan)  housing prices and rents haven't dropped dramatically to my knowledge. 

As your #'s grow, I would expect a discount... but not at the beginning. 

I already have some pitential investors Looking to continue to grow the amount of rentals I have but at the current rate I will deplete my cash reserves quickly and I do not want to slow down while I wait to recover downpayments from my rents.

I am currently building a team in a new city (Milwaukee) other than where I have invested in so far (Grand Rapids).

As equity grows, you can deploy it to buy an investment property or pay down debt.Hope this helps...

Welcome to BP @Aaron Korson Lots of info here to help you grow your business.

It is overwhelming to try to sift through all this and come up with a plan that doesn't tangentially moves rapidly into something other than my original focus.

As I look to grow and purchase more properties I plan to bring on investors and wanted to better understand the concept so that I may better explain how to do it and how it works to potential investors as a source for them to draw from.

I'm really just looking to grow my investment capital and pick up some knowledge on the way to bigger more complex deals.So let's say hypothetically I find a piece of land that the owner will accept 20k for, but I believe the market value to be around 100k, giving me a rough margin of 80k to work with, before closing costs, marketing, etc.