In the evening you can attend Real estate clubs or seminars (without paying for any "courses"  You will meet and greet the Orlando Real Estare community and network.I appreciate your insight and I fully understand where your coming from but my industry doesn't allow me the luxury of getting off at a time that would allow me to attend those meetings or auctions so my only option at this point is to quit and sink or swim.The only shifts that are a possibility are dayside shifts that go from 10am to usually around 8pm or later or nighside from 2pm to around midnight or later.

I should clarify....not abandoning rentals...just shifting focus a bit.

The seller's best hope is a newbie that doesn't know better comes along and shifts his problem onto themselves or a 1031 exchange buyer that has a lot of equity to place and doesn't mind clipping a coupon for the next 5 years buys it. 

We are new real estate investing and flipping homes.I myself am no stranger to rehabbing homes since I grew up with it and worked in the construction industry for 12 years.From hear we are hoping to learn and get started with a new career shift that is much more rewarding. 

I'm coming back with an update (a little shift in perspective from my first post) and also some tips/advice.I initially came to BP with the a goal of buying and holding MF units in the VA Beach and Newport News areas.

I am a Realtor in the Tampa Bay area who is shifting my focus back to investing.  

That being said we have noticed a bit of a shift in the market with the recently legislated changes to borrowing, etc...Fortunately the realtor fees would be lower than expected however this might be offset by additional marketing costs depending on how how aggressively the project is advertised.Although it is a Seller's market there are still some deals to be found.

Looking at some of my own properties I see numbers a couple percent under that, however I had to make some adjustments for unnecessary repairs (upgrades) that I did, on one property I had a big issue from a storm that took a $1000 deductible which put it well over that mark but since it's not a typical cost I removed for this; so with that kind of stuff in mind know that you need to be prepared for greater and when I take these things off for this purpose I do not ignore them which is why I have a good reserve fund that I always hold for nontypical repairs (when I tap into that reserve I shift all cashflow into rebuilding it before I do something else with it).

I will continue to work at my company while investing in real estate, considering my work schedule is a set 4 day 10 hour shift(Sun-Wed).

Shift profits from his LLC to something else to avoid taxation?