I feel like other investors are more aware of the market and would therefore just flip the property themselves whereas individuals are more likely to fit the mold of the motivated seller.  

See how it fits in to your life, your goals, your circumstances, your market, the current economics, etc.

This seems to fit the definition of Escalation Income. 

Thank you Bettina F. Its

Fwiw, one of the reasons REI has been such a good fit for me is that I am an avid traveler and passionate about cities/urban planning.

To build a fourplex it will probably cost me in the neighborhood of $500,000 to $600,000 and the best loan product I found is 85% LTV which is not bad but to be honest will burn up most of my liquidity so once I'm in this deal I would have to wait for a while in order to do my next deal.I feel like when things are too complicated they are not meant to be and the simplest things most of the time the right answer.

There are shady investors out there, and there are also stand-up, honest people who just want to make neighborhoods better and make some money doing it. 

An LLC may be the perfect route for one person while an S-Corp may be perfect for another.While on the surface, both are doing the same type of business, the facts and circumstances regarding their financial and tax goals, their other sources of income, their tolerance for regulation, their family status and their retirement goals may be vastly different, which would affect the type of entity that works best for them.Taxes are not a cookie cutter, one-size-fits-all topic.

The fema requirements forFlood zones are stringent and when areas flood the entire neighborhood takes a hit in values and takes a bit to rebound.

And for FHA, that's one-size-fits-all no matter your FICO score.The real formula, for FHA MIP which is not technically PMI even though lots of industry insiders even make that mistake, is a little more convoluted.