This might be counter intuitive, but get aggressive with your retail investors.  

I  Am aggressive but don't want to make foolish mistakes by moving too fast. 

If you stock up on good, responsive, aggressive agents you might actually find you can charge higher rates.  

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Pratyush Singh try modern builders supply, I use the store in dayton and they are very good and reasonably priced.

Just like with the housing bubble, this is a supply and demand problem.

Transfer of Possession A determination of whether there has been a transfer of possessionis relevant for various provisions of the Act relating to supplies of real property by way of sale, including subsections 168(5), 336(1), (2) and (3) of the Act.

The clerk supplied the telephone number and name of the person to contact.The assistant for the contact person advised that there would be no title issued because the property was in fact scheduled to be sold in the courthouse.

My plan is to try and pay this down aggressively until I get the balance down to around $20,000 (which I anticipate taking 4-5 years) and then try to start buying investment properties.

Almost all of the units I looked at had vacancies or were aggressively marketed by an owner that self managed in the local area.