Just a regular wood fence

If he was regular and full time then I'd say otherwise.

.), it will be around another $100k, i.e. 20% would be around 40k.Yes obviously he is looking for an out, he did 84 deals last year so his options with regular financing are dried up.

and had about a half dozen other tradelines regularly reporting to D&B.

You don't have to be an expert in real estate but just as you studied hard for that high school diploma you must do the same in the investment world.There are a million local investment groups that have regular meetings in pretty much any town.

Parcels have a few pine trees and regular trees but not much else.

Therefore, paying someone like Nick J for example, to guide them and teach them is worth the money in my opinion.Just the same, there are many discussions about doing short sales and they cover just about every detail, but still newbies don't seem to be running out and completing these deals successfully and regularly or we certaihnly would here about it in the success stories.

If you don't use these crews on a regular basis, chances are that half of them won't show up and the other half will be incompetent.

One is in a profession where his colleagues are regularly shot at and killed by the dregs of society.

As David mentioned if you have hundreds of units you can make a little money with volume.I focus on my own investments and brokering deals as that is the highest and best use of my time over anything else I could be doing ROI wise.Christopher with just a few houses you have to watch out for residential agents cutting you a deal on the side to manage your houses while they wait on a regular deal to close.You want a management company that has systems and processes in place to protect your investment as much as possible as that takes infrastructure, training, etc. where the PM company has to charge certain fees to survive.If you have time you can do it yourself but if you are making hundreds per hour doing other activities then it pays to factor in PM costs and have someone else do it.I don't see you finding a PM person to take care of "all the s&*t" for you and you do the easy part and give them a small fee in return.