Though you should be aiming for what would be a successful deal, not the most incredible deal, otherwise you will rarely actually get a deal.Why hasn't the house sold?  

Is this an unrealistic goal given the current market or are any of you finding places in the states that still can produce this kind of return? 

As far as I can tell, if using cash, the deals can be so incredible that you will be open to many options.

Would you have enough money to invest in alternative assets such as real estate and produce good returns on the capital?

I have seen the numbers and I understand why it works, I just don't have the nuts and bolts of it.In a COBOL programming class many years ago, the class material provided the loan amortization formula and it was up to us to write the code to produce an amortization schedule.

It's simple business: you produce a result, you get paid.

Tyann Marcink is a really incredible photographer, and she has some great tips about staging and photography on her blog and elsewhere.

I then make an offer with the seller's agent acting as dual agent.You can get incredible deals this way.  

This is where you produce solar power on your roof, and sell it into the grid.

Happy to have really found this website, it's such an incredible trove of information!