(make a sincere, realistic offer and included your closing agenda)step 5 - use a cheap, industry specific printer (we spend less than the price of a stamp to get the whole thing printed and mailed)step 6 - wait for signed offers to come back and pick the best ones to purchase!

I definitely agree with you in that in the beginning, you should pick one strategy and master it before assuming it doesnt work and moving onto another strategy.

Our investment group just picked up a real nice deal in Southeast Portland.

We pick one of our favorite restaurants, book the entire place on one of their closed nights or a slow night in January, and invite our work team (plus one guest each) to join us for dinner and a celebration to show our gratitude.Most of our construction/trades contractors don't have health insurance and put off aspects of their health care.

As far as the 1 year agreement goes: if you already picked out a single property, an agent should just sign a buyer's agency agreement (exclusive right-to-buy) but limit it specifically to the property you are interested in.

I had a real estate agent, but I had picked him randomly from the yellow pages.

It's not in the greatest location but something we believe we can market because of multiple factors including the fact that it adjoins to a city park on one side that has nice amenities and on the other side it has 3 ingress/egress streets that deadend on the property line with utilities that follow. 

Purchased a multiunit - 3bd/1ba & 1bd/baCost: $490,000Down payment: $200,000Renovation Budget: $70,000Mortgage: $2100/month - 30 yr fixed @ 4%Expenses: $190/Month (Utilities, upkeep, and administration) Rental Income: $4000/month ($2400 3bd/1ba & $1600 1bd/ba)Profit: $1600-$1710 a month depending on utility costsTo keep costs down my wife and I did as much work as we could, such as painting, installing kitchen cabinets, laminate flooring, light fixtures, etc.

Any tips on how you went about picking your GC?

I was thinking about picking up the 4 hour work week.