I'm currently working as bartender at a local restaurant, so I do have a job.I'm aiming for properties that can be forcefully appreciated in value through rehabbing and be deemed as a reliable cash flow investment so that when I turn around to sell it, I'll have the option of leveraging the 1 year lease, or whatever the situation is, at the negotiation table.

Any updates would be great.

(Waiting on a tenant eviction later this month, to do the refurb, and updating work all at once.)http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/SectionDisplay.jsp?

A lot of the people I respect are really aiming for the middle.

Listen to all the podcasts (specially mine) :-)http://Biggerpockets.com/show65Flipping is good and there are other strategies that are great depending on the property you get and the area it is in.Every week I update BP Nation on what happens to my real estate business:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/223/topics/183...

Study Zillow for the area you want to live.Keep us updated.

I am aiming to do this through buy and hold rental cash flow but if I need to sell a couple flips in order to get into a position to buy and hold I will.So glad I made the step to post, really feels good.Thanks BP community.James

I ask investors all the time "would you take on a fix-and-flip that had 90% Seller Financing, 0 interest for 6 months- balloon payment after 12 months, Purchase $150k,  rehab $10k (cosmetic update), and ARV $200k, comps avg DOM under 10 days?"

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I kind of think baseball schedules and chip clips are cheesy, so a combo of market updates or this month in real estate and newsletters.