Just go through some of the ideas shared , spend a day crunching numbers , educating yourself and seeing if you can make it all work!

A close friend of mine brokers over a billion dollars in RE loans annually and was able to secure a 5% 5yr ARM with 80% LTV on this 800k deal for me in October (18').

My business partner has a hypothesis that spending extra money to build an abundance of storage space into a rental unit will keep tenants "sticky".

How does spending time & money removing an income stream from my life only to replace it with another one that may or may not be worse increase my bottom line?

Be ready to spend it.Step 3.

In short - hottest area now is where Apple is plopping a billion dollars (NW Austin). 

I live in a large Amish Community in Southern Indiana with several different things to offer but just not sure if I should only promote a place for people to stay or widen the choices to include tours and actual time they (Tourists) could spend at Amish Farmsteads which would include learning all aspects of the Amish Lifestyle.

My main investor always says he will glading spend 2k to save 10k.  

To successfully perform a flip the house flipping company needs to Spend time & money marketing to distressed sellers to source a deal with a large profit potentialEstimate the ARV of the dealEstimate the repair costs of the dealDetermine if there is enough profit in the deal to make sense for a flipNegotiate a sales price with the owner of the propertyHire the General ContractorManage the renovationEnsure the renovation is completed on time & on budgetMarket & sell the property for the estimated ARV to ensure they hit the estimated profit marginAfter successfully doing all of that why would they then hand over the majority of the profits to you?

I did not go through every single cell, but I did spend some time looking at it.